Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.

Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.