Gifts for being you.

Programmers are artisans, not serfs.

All life is experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Innovation has nothing to do with … money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Make no mistake, human societies derive a truly significant competitive advantage from the reciprocity rule, and consequently they make sure their members are trained to comply with and believe in it.

Each of us has been taught to live up to the rule, and each of us knows about the social sanctions and derision applied to anyone who violates it… . Because there is general distaste for those who take and make no effort to give in return, we will often go to great lengths to avoid being considered one of their number. It is to those lengths that we will often be taken and, in the process, be “taken” by individuals who stand to gain from our indebtedness.

If you want to be a leader, go lead. — Seth Godin