Paul Saffo Quotes

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

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#2. 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

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

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. "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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

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#9. Hipness is the only asset that matters.

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

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

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#12. 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.

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

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