Metamorphosis is a wonderful thing, unless what you really need are caterpillars.

Moving beyond is not moving toward.

Don't mistake the weather for the terrain.

"A song doesn’t exist to convey the meaning of the words. Rather, the words exist to convey the meaning of the song." -- critic Simon Frith, as quoted in an Alex Ross piece about Pavement.

"The less able the common person is to consciously recognize the origin and mechanism of an experienced benefit of a product, the more important it is for the creator of that product to provide it." -- John Siracusa

There are no big projects. There are only large sets of small projects that go together.

Don't mistake working around something for working through it.

Here's the transcript of my IA Summit 2009 closing plenary address.

We do not find peace; we make it.