Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.