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

The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

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.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.

Say what you believe and see who follows.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.