The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.