Stop looking over your shoulder and invent something!

Great, world-changing things always start small. The ideal project is one where people don't have meetings, they have lunch.

"The whole idea of bigger being better, I just don't think that's the case anymore."

The hardest part isn't inventing the solution but figuring out how to get people to adopt it.

I like to focus on banal, boring issues like standards, protocols, and IPR because I delight in showing how supposedly arcane technical problems actually turn out to be political.

People who have better tools win.

Never underestimate the value of a good tool properly employed. But don't expect it to solve everything, especially over the long term. Your enemy is watching you, he has read his Claude Shannon, and he has some good tools of his own.

People will do stuff today that they would not do even a year ago.

Everything seems to devolve into Friendster, sooner or later.

Technology has made it easier than ever to count your friends -- but that doesn't mean you should.

Teens need a sense of being able to get away. Really away.

I have two questions.

1) What's so wrong with the real world that makes everyone want to get away from it?

2) If everyone is so eager to "escape", who will ever fix the problems?

I try to work on things that won't happen unless I do them.

It's ironic that entrepreneurism preaches chaos, while staunch corporate management theory preaches control. The typical organization is constantly vacillating between those states. It's never one or the other, and the tension is constantly changing on a daily basis. It's that tension, muscle pushing against bone, that gets things done.

You can't change the fact that it is human nature for people to carve up a problem and try to own things, for the complexity to accrete in corners, and for the vocabulary of the project not to make it all the way across.