Instead of looking like a royal heartthrob, he just looked crazy.
Unable to voice the truth, she said simply, “Cyborg vision.
Sacha snaked one arm out from beneath the blankets and reached toward Cinder, grasping her wrist where skin met metal. Cinder squirmed, trying to pull away, but Sacha held tight. Her hand was marked by bluish pigment around her yellowed fingernails.
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.
It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.
If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.
You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
The internet creates more of an appetite for media – it doesn’t replace physical books, radio or TV.
If you can find something that you’re really passionate about, whether you’re a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.
Really in technology, it’s about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.
You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
Pick something and make it great.
Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.
Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.
Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow.
New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.
Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do – and the business side.