The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.