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.

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

Always be grateful for life, love, and joy.

I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you...you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.

Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.

Uriah proved to be a better man drunk than David was sober.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

Everything that is true is authentic.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.