Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.
The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.
Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.
When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Don't be afraid to ask questions.
I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.
I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
