You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.