Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

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

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.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.