It's Really Complex To Make Something Simple.

I Love Cities, And I Love City Governments In Particular. But In Politics It Would Have Taken Me 8 Years From Implementing A Policy Before I Would Get To See The Feedback. With Programming I Could Model The Same Policies And See The Impact Immediately. Technology Is A Far More Efficient Way To Test.

The Greatest Lesson That I Learned In All Of This Is That You Have To Start. Start Now, Start Here, And Start Small. Keep It Simple.

Tweetdeck Is A Very Interesting Client, Because It Presents A View That No Other Client In The World Presents, Which Is This Multicolumn, Massive Amounts Of Information In One Pane. And People Really, Really Enjoy That.

Those Words Are From Lynda Barry's Novel 'cruddy.' I've Carried Them With Me For Some Time. There's A Lot In My Life I Wasn't Expecting. One Is The Realization That I Stood At This Pulpit And Delivered A Reading For My Own Graduation...15 Years Ago. Unexpectedly, I'm Old.

Short Term Satisfaction Will Never Lead To Something Timeless.