History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.

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.

Right path will not always look like a right path

Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

I run a multi billion dollar company