The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

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

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.