“The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.”

“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.”

“Ironically, really good work often appears to be effortless. People will say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” They won’t see the years of toil and sweat that went into it.”

“Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”

“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.”

“You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”

“You’ll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.”