Paul Saffo Quotations

The creative IT department is going to be where it's broken up so that IT people are out on the front lines.

We're seeing the rise of independent specialists who have a deep understanding of things that big companies don't have the ability to do.

With more technologies, there are more choices. Choose wisely and well. You don't have to read every e-mail you get; you need to develop your own rules of thumb and steps to sanity.

I think what we're in now is still every bit a media revolution ... but it's a personal media revolution. We can answer back if we want.

Just as people, after the tsunami, deployed this ad hoc array of Internet boxes and sensor devices in Asia, they will come in this time and do it again.

Steve is a very driven man making a point ? that he's the best and the smartest and that he can change the world. This guy comes down to a mix of three things: pragmatism, idealism and sheer drive.

My nightmare fear is some congressman is going to seize on this and they're going to pass some laws, ... I can just see people overreacting and doing things that would invade people's privacy or tie up the Internet with so much security nonsense that innovation slows down.

Messages into the future is something that people have always sought to do. In a way, it's a statement of optimism.

We're not so many years away from companies offering kits for the compulsive, ... (But) anyone that compulsive isn't going to lose something.

To me, the deal has the smell of inevitability to it. If it doesn't happen, for whatever reason, it would be a lost opportunity for both companies. The long-term trajectory of both these companies without each other is downwards.

The problem has not been hostility to technology; the problem has been big egos.

Browsers are becoming the default way to access information.

The thing that most people don't realize about Steve is that he is not only really good at taking technology and turning it into good-looking, easy-to-use products, he's really good at doing it faster than anyone else.

That's going to change, ... We're going to put eyes, ears and sensory organs on our computers and our networks in absolutely unprecedented ways. We're going to ask them to observe and manipulate the physical world on our behalf.

They're taking lots of really smart risks and doing things that are very strategic.

It will be consumers who will decide those solutions are good ones or not. I can guarantee you that Bluetooth will end up having its most important uses being uses that nobody can guess at today.

It will be consumers who will decide those solutions are good ones or not, ... I can guarantee you that Bluetooth will end up having its most important uses being uses that nobody can guess at today.

This is a unique conference. It is a forum for the AMD community to consider not just immediate technology trends and their business impacts, but also to explore the larger, longer-term surprises that technological innovation presents for society at large.

This is a unique conference, ... It is a forum for the AMD community to consider not just immediate technology trends and their business impacts, but also to explore the larger, longer-term surprises that technological innovation presents for society at large.

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded,

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier.

Hipness is the only asset that matters.

We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum.. In a world of hyper abundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

The idea of fiddling with Microsoft applications will evaporate,

The lesson about all these things, it's the lesson from time capsules, is you have to be careful lest you set yourself up for enormous embarrassment in two decades. Do you really want to be reminded that you thought ABBA was cool?