When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.