Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.