Howard Rheingold Quotes

Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

There aren't very many clubs. There's no place for people to develop and play.

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.

I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

Never use technology for technology's sake.

The few ... write their plans and scheems by asotiations, conventions and correspondence with each other .... Their professions are often called together and know each others mind ...

… monster meetings

Human interaction in a complex environment is key to our [military] success in the future.

Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.

For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

Why fight technology at all? The audience is always going to tell you what they like best. And you, as a storyteller, as a communicator, are going to be required to adjust to that.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.