At Airbnb, we're trying to build a culture that supports details, celebrates them, and gives our teams creative license to pursue them.
I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days.
It was when I first tried a go-kart in '96. I saw a go-kart race locally, and that got me excited about it, and I wanted to try one. When I got to try one, I just loved the speed and after that it became more about how to improve the lap time and all the details and that.
I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
I think the details and the quality are so important that it has to have an emotional tug. Even if it's the simplest shoe, it has to have something that says, 'Oh, I have to have you.'
The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known particle in the world, there should be a partner particle, the so-called supersymmetric partner.
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
I'm no different from anyone else but I don't trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into a bookies.