“When a new writer defends his “style,” the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn’t an artifice. Real style – voice – arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer’s character.”

The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different from facts and greater than facts, and not always their sum.

When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation – an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you’ll know everything about them.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.