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

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.

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.

Hipness is the only asset that matters.

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it, ” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.

Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.

You never can tell with bees.

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.

I love travel. I love to go spend time in new places. And even though I got horribly sick in Thailand, and it was the sickest I may have ever been in my life, I still loved the trip.

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

Everyone’s competing for a love they won't receive.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.