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.

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

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.

Who has the data has the power.

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

Create more value than you capture.

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