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

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.

Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

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

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.