The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

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.

The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.

Data is the next Intel Inside.

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

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.