A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.

Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

Brand inside is more important than brand outside for sustained success.

The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.