The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.