Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.