You need to fail in order to find the right solution.

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?

I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.