Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.
It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.
It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.
It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.
I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.
We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. . . I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.
The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).