Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of read more

Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off read more

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and read more

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

It just looked a lot worse than it was.

It just looked a lot worse than it was.

Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be read more

Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be inside them.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed read more

The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.

That's the way it has been all season long. We get off to a good start but fall behind after read more

That's the way it has been all season long. We get off to a good start but fall behind after we are forced into several poor match-ups because of injuries.