Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.
Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.
Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
Customer service is the new marketing.
The best learners. . . often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.
Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.
I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.