Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.