Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

I worry about a society that can remember everything.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.

The funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it's the people above and all around you who get the final say.

Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.