I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
 And I worry that we’re losing that.