Paul Saffo Quotes - Page 2

• Creo que en los últimos 10 años las empresas han hecho un trabajo muy malo a la hora de explicar a sus empleados cuáles son los riesgos intrínsecos. Lo único que sé es que, si esperas a despedir al empleado para abordar la cuestión de cómo comunicarle su despido, ya es demasiado tarde para hacer nada.

  Paul Saffo

  Dejar ir, Pensar, Esperar

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

  Paul Saffo

  Intellectual, Mind, Roaches

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• Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It's the only explanation for eBay. We love to collect stuff, and at least if we're collecting stuff in cyberspace we're not deforesting the Sierra Nevada.

  Paul Saffo

  Thinking, Ebay, Cyberspace

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• The best way to let people go is to let them know when they're hired that it's an uncertain environment and that their job is always at risk and even if you let them go, it's not that you don't love them.

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  People, Risk, Environment

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Los precios de las acciones hacen girar la cabeza de la gente. Cuando los precios son altos, tratamos a una empresa como a dioses, y si bajan, la tratamos de tonta.

  Paul Saffo

  People, Fool, Treats

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• Google was the right set of people at the right time, and they ended up doing the right set of things. It's worth looking at how they are managed. They are network-oriented and allow a lot of flexibility and creativity.

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  Creativity, People, Google

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and it doesn't really bother me.

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  Años, Gente, Dura

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• The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.

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  Brother, Real, Kids

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• I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

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  Doors, Wish, Wildlife

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, Digital, Glue

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• I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an alter ego of yourself that learns from your social experiences and extends a life even if you're no longer in the game or you are no longer alive.

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  Thinking, Games, Ego

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

  Paul Saffo

  Thinking, Doe, Facts

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• I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they are alive. We see home movies. We have videotapes now and e-mails. When it's going to get interesting is in massively multiplayer online games where you have avatars (online personas). You could actually create an avatar that's semi-autonomous. It could do things for you while you get off the game to run the rest of your life.

  Paul Saffo

  Running, Home, Technology

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

  Paul Saffo

  Climate, Way, Next

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• The difference between our collective generation and your generation (differentiating the reporters from the students) is that we poured our souls out on paper that got easily yellowed and lost. The danger is that many of your friends (nodding at the students) are putting intimate ideas in cyberspace journals. So when today's 15-year-old is 40, some friend is going to drag out all of that idiotic stuff at their class reunion.

  Paul Saffo

  Years, Class, Ideas

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• You don't want to rely on an expert to tell you what lies ahead.

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  Lying, Experts, Want

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• As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.

  Paul Saffo

  Years, Forever, Machines

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• Si nos fijamos en los últimos 150 años, cada 30 años aproximadamente surge una nueva disciplina científica que empieza a desarrollar tecnologías y a cautivar la imaginación de la gente. Volvamos a 1900: Esa industria era la química. La gente tenía juegos de química. En los años 30 surgieron la física y los físicos. Se basan los unos en los otros. Los químicos sentaron las bases experimentales para que los físicos construyeran sus teorías. Tres físicos inventaron el transistor en 1947. Esto inició la revolución de la información. Hoy, los niños tienen ordenadores.

  Paul Saffo

  Niños, Tecnología, Años

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• La Red es un nuevo y atractivo medio al que todo el mundo da todo tipo de usos, desde bancos a lobatos y sectas de platillos volantes. Dicho esto, también puede ser un poderoso amplificador de la locura.

  Paul Saffo

  Powerful, Flying, Use

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• It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

  Paul Saffo

  Two, Decades, Fundamentalism

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.

  Paul Saffo

  Social Network, Defined, Excluded

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• When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

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  Japan, Hair, Might

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• Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't cyberspace. It's cyberbia. It's this vast, bland wasteland of vulgar people and trivial ideas and pictures of half-naked starlets. But despite all the uncertainty, has there ever been a more fascinating moment to be alive?

  Paul Saffo

  Home, Ideas, People

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new businesses and if you do that right, the cost savings will come.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, Advice, Touching

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse the short-term crises with the long-term trends. Amidst all of these short-term change are some fundamental structural transformations happening in the economy, and the best way to stay in business is to not allow the short-term distractions to cause you to ignore what is happening in the long term.

  Paul Saffo

  Long, Perspective, Important

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