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.

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.

Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens.

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.

To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.