Red Burns, founder of the Interactive Telecommunications Program

Competition is not valued here […] Competitive people have energy, they’re interesting and so forth. But they’re so focused on the competition they fail to see what they’re doing. They just want ‘better, bigger, stronger, longer,’ and they miss the periphery. And that is where you find things you don’t even know are there.

 
Red Burns, founder of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. (via smukherjee14)