One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

When you climb a fruitless tree, you go hungry!

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'