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We live in an age in which the pace of technological change is pulsating ever faster, causing waves that spread outward toward all industries. This increased rate of change will have an impact on you, no matter what you do for a living. It will bring new competition from new ways of doing things, from corners that you don't expect.
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (1996)
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Technology has nothing to do with the corporate world. I don't see technology and the corporate world as being necessarily intertwined, any more than art and the corporate world are intertwined.
Quoted in 'Steve's Two Jobs,' Time (Michael Krantz; October 18, 1999)
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
The web workstyle will change the boundaries ofbusiness...because the ability to use the electronic marketplace to reach outside...will allow you to do things that you would have done internally in the past. Technology is driving the trend for the average-sized organization to be much smaller.
Speech, Manhattan Institute, New York City (December 2, 1998)
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
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