I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is a researcher's dream.

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.

A lack of love for humanity is our biggest enemy.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

I don't act to be popular, or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time, and what I look like.

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm singing. I missed it when I left it.

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

You always see the world, the way you are, not the way world is.

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Liberty is a product of order.