Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.