It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

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