My two favorite quotes.
"So we just went ahead and tried."
"I didn't know what you couldn't do. I didn't deliberately set out to invent anything, it just seemed to me--why not?"
If you don't believe Richard Feynman or myself, here's Orson Welles on how good ignorance can be. It's thanks to ignorance like his that we have ceilings in movies. Ceilings! For a long time I've thought that refusing to do something The Way Things Are is the best way to go about work. There's always a better way, a way that makes more sense.
Instead of sitting around browsing through Ads of The World all week you could try to make something you way. That alone will make you interesting. As Dave Trott says, "It's more important to be interesting than right."
Thanks to Ben Kay for finding the video.