We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

Chance favors the connected mind.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I guess I look at everything sideways nowadays.

If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.