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

Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

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.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.