Paul Saffo Quotes

#1. Paper is brain interface. Paul Saffo

David Sibbet

#2. Hipness is the only asset that matters.

Paul Saffo

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

Paul Saffo

#4. Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he?

James Anderson

#5. Brick by brick.

Brick by brick, I will destroy you.

"It was the promise that let him sleep at night, that drove him every day, that kept Jordie's ghost at bay. Because a quick death was too good for Pekka Rollins.

Leigh Bardugo

#6. Three things happened in 1945. Daddy went missing, Annie started wetting the bed, and the Lester girl sang about Hitler in the middle of Sunday service.

Sarina Adeline

#7. You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

Winston Churchill

#8. If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

Bryant McGill

#9. 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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#10. Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine

#11. Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

Gemma Chan

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

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

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

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#15. 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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#16. "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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#17. 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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#18. Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your current one out when it's done and forget it, start another, and keep on writing for joy. Words I now live by. Welwyn Wilton Katz

Welwyn Wilton Katz

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

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#21. 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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#22. It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

William Boyd

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

Paul Saffo