We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

Good marketers measure.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.