“Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about.”

“Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.”

“There is a kind of fallout that happens when you leave college. The classroom is a wonderful, if artificial, place: Your professor gets paid to pay attention to your ideas, and your classmates are paying to pay attention to your ideas. Never again in your life will you have such a captive audience.”

“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”

“The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.”

“Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.”

“Pretend to be something you’re not until you are—fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them.”