Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.

I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information. Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.

I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books.

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.