Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

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.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.