Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

Took you long enough!,' she said, and planted a kiss on his lips.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.