When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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

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

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

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.

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