A toxic person kills, and by kills I mean totally destroys teamwork.

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.

Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.

Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.

A milestone is less date and more definition.

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.