“...I like to learn new things...things where innovation can be tapped to change the state of the world...”—Bill Gates

“I spend most of my time assuming that the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them relatively soon. One, because people don’t understand what’s going to happen and second because of the compounding that’s occurring.”—Eric Schmidt

“...when things get tough think like an engineer, think pragmatically, put ideology and theory aside for the time being, identify the problems, frame them the way they can be solved and solve the god damn things and then you may be free to go back to all the ideology you want...”—Stewart Brand

“We’re moving to a world of transactions where virtually everything if not everything can be bought and sold perhaps with the exception of tacit knowledge.”—John Hagel

“I think you'll see more purpose driven behavior out of [social media], like more understanding of how to use this tool to have a better life, by being proactive about it. I think that’s true both in the personal and the professional sense.”—Reid Hoffman

“...we do solutions not problems, we’re practitioners not theorists, we do transformation not incrementalism...”—Amory Lovins