Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.

The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Don't settle for less than is possible.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we'd better figure out the answer to my question-quick.