The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

Win small, win early, win often.

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.

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.