Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

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.

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.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.