If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook, Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, high-speech broadband, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed