Robert Scoble

“The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.”

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

“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.”

“I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds.”

“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.”

“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.”

“This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.”

“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.”

“Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader.”

“Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.”

“Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.”

“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.”