Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.