Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.

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.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.