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

“You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits.”

“Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”

“Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.”

“You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way.”

“Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.”