A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

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

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.