The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Create more value than you capture.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.