Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.

The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.