You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.