“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”

“The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.”

“The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.”

“Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passion often matters more If you love doing something, youll be constantly drawn to get better at it.”

“Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.”

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”

“Everyone lives in two worlds, Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. Theres the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, th...”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”