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

We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.

You don't want to rely on an expert to tell you what lies ahead.

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

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

Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.

Google was the right set of people at the right time, and they ended up doing the right set of things. It's worth looking at how they are managed. They are network-oriented and allow a lot of flexibility and creativity.