You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.

In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.