When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

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.

I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.