Paul Saffo

I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet.…

— Paul Saffo

The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in…

— Paul Saffo

Never mistake a clearer view for a short distance just because the technology looks like it's about to arrive in the very…

— Paul Saffo

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful…

— Paul Saffo

Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal…

— Paul Saffo

I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The…

— Paul Saffo

Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic…

— Paul Saffo

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

— Paul Saffo

Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do…

— Paul Saffo

When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair…

— Paul Saffo

When everybody else is in a down market is focusing on what they're doing wrong, instead focus on what you should be…

— Paul Saffo

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

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world…

— Paul Saffo

I can't imagine how you can find the discipline to be emotionally detached reporting on a revolution, the winds of which are…

— Paul Saffo

I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our…

— Paul Saffo

It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It…

— Paul Saffo

I worry about a society that can remember everything.

— Paul Saffo

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

— Paul Saffo

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning…

— Paul Saffo

More information and more communications foster world peace and understanding. But connecting extremist nut cases together on the Web - whatever flavor…

— Paul Saffo

People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way…

— Paul Saffo

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will…

— Paul Saffo

The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to…

— Paul Saffo

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

— Paul Saffo

It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

— Paul Saffo