Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day. — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff.… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing that a company can do, not just in the customer space but the employee space, is… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I think companies over the last 10 years have done a very bad job of explaining to their employees what the intrinsic… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
My driving style is alert. As a forecaster, I can't help but think about who else is on the road and how… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome.… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use).… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Never mistake a clearer view for a short distance just because the technology looks like it's about to arrive in the very near future.… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The very notion… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded, — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
When everybody else is in a down market is focusing on what they're doing wrong, instead focus on what you should be doing differently,… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
