Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Create more value than you capture.