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The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

Data is the next Intel Inside.

Create more value than you capture.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can't possibly get to these and do what they do best.

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Who has the data has the power.

We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.