37 Quotes by Paul Saffo

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?

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.

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