A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
I believe that data lock-in of various kinds is going to be one of the key tools of business advantage in the internet era.
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.
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
There's almost always a guiding spirit, an author or editor who puts out a framework that guides a collective work.
There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.
This whole idea of people subscribing to content that they care about I think is fairly fundamental. We're basically dealing with a world of information overload and being able to tailor your personal portal is a pretty powerful idea. And I think we're going to see it increasingly used.
We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
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