This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.

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.

A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

Muse usually gestured like an amphetamine-fueled Sicilian who's nearly gotten clipped by a speeding car.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

Most things in life are better when you just cut to the chase.

Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.

People should be judged on the things they do, not how they look.

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.