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

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.

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.

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.