If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.