The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.