"We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace."

"Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different."

"Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow."

"The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time."

"When deeds speak, words are nothing."

"Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic."

"I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it."

"You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid."