If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.

I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.