Hipness is the only asset that matters.

I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is a researcher's dream.

The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.

I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The very notion of a fulltime job will seem as quaint in 20 years as the notion of someone getting a gold watch at their retirement in the 1950s.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new businesses and if you do that right, the cost savings will come.