I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and it doesn't really bother me.

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.

No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.

Politics is the science of how who gets what when and why.

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.