More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.