“Creativity comes from constraint.”

So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

Embrace your constraints.

It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.

Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.

I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.

If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.