Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.

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.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

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

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

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

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.