Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.