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" I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early. "

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" My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible. "

" At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology. "

" We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time. "

" Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt. "

" Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life. "

" IOS users tend to be ones that really care about being online all the time. They also tend to be willing to pay for that. You might say they are richer users, which is partially true. "

" On mobile, make sure Facebook's app can know where you are. That not only makes features like Nearby Friends possible but also makes your feed have a few items from your location. "

" Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing. "

" Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do. "

" Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too. "

" Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only. "

" The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car. "

" Everything you do on Facebook will affect what comes in your view in the future. If you like crappy things that you don't care about, you'll see more crappy brands that you don't care about in the future, and it might even affect your experiences when you walk into bars, churches, schools, shopping malls, etc. "

" Oh, some day I'll tell you about why I wrote more than 1,500 Gmail filters. They throw away more than 300 emails every day. Every day. It's the best thing I ever did for my productivity. "

" Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you. "

" The problem with Flipboard is that it's an app, not the Web, and I keep hoping someone will show me a really well-designed Web app that shows me that the Web can still win. "

" What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else. "

" If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere. "

" I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!' "

" People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true. "

" Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it. "

" I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them! "

" I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub. "

" I always tell people, start with what you're passionate about. If you truly are passionate, you'll keep it up. "

" Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can. "

" Unfriend people who do not post to Facebook or engage with anyone else. You'll find your posts start getting reach they never did before. Why? Facebook only releases your posts to a few people at first and watches what they do with it. "

" Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg. "

" If you're in business, and you don't understand how that word of mouth works, you won't be able to take full advantage of it, how to get full adoption by getting that network to talk about you. "

" I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise. "

" I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company. "