We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.