The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

It's quintessentially American to transform your family.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.