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

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

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.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.