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"Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way."
"The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned."
"My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over."
"Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves."
"The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice."
"Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around."
"Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide."
"The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters."
"If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared."
"The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way."
"Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow."
"Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door."
"Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices."
"The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit."
"The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people."
"Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change."
"You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people."
"All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works."
"The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money."
"I always travel first class on a train. It's the only way to avoid one's creditors."
