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.

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

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