It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

I worry about a society that can remember everything.

Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old thing more efficiently, where in this moment of deep transformation, it is much more likely that you should be doing something entirely new in an entirely different way.

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

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.

It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars of Germany in the 1480s lamenting the fact that they are overloaded with all this stuff to read because of the printing press.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.