“It isn't enough to pick a pathyou must go down it. By doing so, you see things you couldn't possibly see when you started out; you may not like what you see, some of it may be confusing, but at lea...”

“This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.”

“When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.”

“Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up it means you trust them even when they do screw up.”

“From a very early age, the message is drilled into our heads: Failure is bad; failure means you didnt study or prepare; failure means you slacked off orworse!arent smart enough to begin with. Thus,...”

“The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failureto create an environment in which making mistakes doesnt strike terror into your employees hearts.”

“The essence of Agile movement, whether in new product development, new service offerings, software applications, or project management, rests on two foundational goals: delivering valuable products...”

“Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.”

“A sound idea is a form of energy. It can not be destroyed. It evolves from inspiration, to a function of preparation, then determination - till the ideator's dream becomes actualized in real lifeAt...”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”

“There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in ord...”

“Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.”