The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.