Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.