Om Malik

“Living a 24-hour news life has come at a personal cost. I still wake in middle of the night to check the stream to see if something is breaking, worrying whether I missed some news.”

“A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform.”

“Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.”

“By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.”

“When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.”

“Everybody has a different interpretation of immigration problems, and it's a highly personal experience. If anyone tells you there is a uniform solution to it, there isn't. As far as I'm concerned, it worked for me. And I don't know how to fix the problem.”

“The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.”

“Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched in 2007. Nokia thought that the iPhone used inferior technology; the camera makers thought that it took lousy pictures. Neither thought that they had anything to worry about.”

“Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales.”

“Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.”

“For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down.”

“Facebook needs to maintain its vise-like grip on our attention to become a conduit of not only advertising but also commerce, so that it can take a cut of everything.”

“I know I am not alone in struggling with Facebook and how we experience it through its news feed.”

“Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.”

“Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day weekend. On the ground, they form the foundation of autonomous-driving systems.”

“I think the emotional appeal of a platform is what works. I think the old-media entities still have not figured out that part of the game plan.”

“Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music.”

“Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.”

“Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.”

“Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.”