So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Act confident, even when you're not.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

Modeling isn't boring.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

I Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.