Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

Art is the act of navigating without a map.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.