If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.