It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong

Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost that wore a tie. A hobo.

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

A lot of the stars were actually in the military and they were really strong characters.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

I like to keep my face "pretty" because then I won't be like oh my god, what are you doing here?

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

We read books to find out who we are.