Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.

"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless."

Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

My real mantra for my life is "empower others".