tom’s most recent Quotables

I asked him if he would come up with a few options. And he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you, and you will pay me. And you don’t have to use the solution — if you want options, go talk to other people. But I’ll solve your problem for you the best way I know how, and you use it or not, that’s up to you — you’re the client

Getting rid of librarians because everything is online = getting rid of accountants because everyone has a calculator on desk.

In order to create, you must have authentic experiences, and if you don’t have authentic experiences then you have nothing to work with.

Punk rockers can do anything, if punk rockers were running NASA we’d be drinking tea on the moon by now

The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine.

The great opportunity of work is that you sustain your interest in it.

The goal of graphic design is not to have everyone like the result. The goal is to have the target audience love it.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

It is an invariable principle of all play, finite and infinite, that whoever plays, plays freely. Whoever *must* play, *cannot* play

Moon Pie! What a time to be alive!

When the marginal cost of the interaction is zero, the marketing opportunities of spreading an idea increase dramatically.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — pride, fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.

Everything on the tour went drastically wrong. But at least there was a tour for it to go wrong on.

May I start by saying how thrilled we are to have you here. We are such fans of your music and all of your records. I'm not speaking of yours personally, but the whole genre of the rock and roll.

And now! At Last! Another film completely different from some of the other films which aren't quite the same as this one is.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

If he dies, he dies