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

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.

I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

Merlin’s beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

I love the Asian countries.