Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

No one is as smart as all of us.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?