Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.

What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.