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

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.