Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.