You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.
I've been saying for years that page view-based advertising is a corrupting force.
Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art
The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.
Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat. . . The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.
The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.