Quotes from Robert Scoble

but 20 years from now it will be bizarre if you walk into a store and the store doesn't know who you are.

Loic Le Meur, producer of LeWeb, Europe's largest tech conference, is an ardent fitness enthusiast and Quantified Self proponent. In August 2010, he suggested in a blog post that as people and mobile devices work together to provide highly personalized data, the human body itself becomes an Application Programming Interface (API), meaning that developers can now offer personalized mobile apps for each individual by letting their computer codes talk with each other.

While your Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush scans for cavities, you will be able to peruse messages that appear on the glass or see reminders of the medications you need to take.

My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle.

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

Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.

Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.

Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

It's amazing when I walk through an expo hall and can't figure out what a company does just by walking past its booth.

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

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.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.

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

Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

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

The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule

We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.