We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.

When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that will sort of move the dial. And there's this sort of weird effect where the larger a company gets, the harder it is to come up with any new product that really moves the dial.

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.