“In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always ...” — Alfred Whitney Griswold Quote

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

A Socrates in every classroom.

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we can have, especially being an artist, is that we can create music that can build bridges and smash down very bad ideas.

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.