It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.

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.

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.