Jesse James Garrett's Blog

Define what's missing to better understand what's there.

Predicting what will happen in the future is much easier than predicting when to expect it.

The problems of success are much preferable to the problems of failure.

Just because a sentiment is oft-repeated does not mean it's insincere.

Sometimes you think you're sailing when you're really surfing. It seems like you're headed for your desired destination, but actually you're just going where the wave takes you.

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

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

"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

"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.