To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

All Marketers are liars tell stories.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.