Paul Saffo famous quotes

03-28-2025

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.
-- Paul Saffo

#Iphone #Cyberspace #Pockets
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
-- Paul Saffo

#Mistake #Distance #Views
Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.
-- Paul Saffo

#Mind #Intellectual #Microsoft
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.
-- Paul Saffo

#Technology #Entrepreneur #Use
Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.
-- Paul Saffo

#Singing #World #Toss
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present
-- Paul Saffo

#Meaningful #Goal #Needs
The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded,
-- Paul Saffo

#Social Network #Social #Values
It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.
-- Paul Saffo

#Technology #Opportunity #Years
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.
-- Paul Saffo

#Player #Design #Tools
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
-- Paul Saffo

#Butterfly #Jewels #Data
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum.. In a world of hyper abundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources.
-- Paul Saffo

#Views #Age #World

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