Charlie Rose

equipete  01/20/2012 05:52 PM Report

One of my favorite interviews all time...

danielcbarrett  01/03/2012 04:27 AM Report

say Neil Young's name again..but please don't

anne4444  12/29/2011 01:17 PM Report

Sounds odd, think different, but true:

The total vibration level of all human souls on earth will affect the humanity of our universe. It is the time for all individual on earth to take his/her responsibility and liberate his/her own soul towards higher frequency vibration of love and compassion.

Please do not trap your soul into low frequency vibration of money, justice, power, fame fear and any other things.

Please help yourself with liberation towards higher frequency of love and compassion, you will help us all. At end, we are all together as one earth with one vibration. The total vibration level of all souls on earth needs to match the new level vibration of earth in order for us to move forward.

It is the time for government to provide basic needs of individual to avoid the trap of soul.

It is the time for any intelligent men/women to find some ways or means to help lift human soul.

It is the time for us to watch movies, which make our heart melt with love. (any movies promote fear shall be banned).

It is the time for us to listen music which shakes our souls to higher vibration.

It is the time for us to make love with our loved one with great orgasm.

It is the time for us to do something to help all being on earth with great passion and deep love towards others.

It is the time for us to respect/honor all lives on earth through love and compassion.

It is the time for us to do anything without excuse to liberate our souls toward love and compassion.

WE CAN DO IT, WE MUST DO IT AND WE WILL DO IT. Our souls will vibrate very high. They will nurture our mother earth and whole universe instead of distressing them.

Calirockstar07  12/02/2011 01:26 PM Report

Great interview. Marc is spot on that social media is converging with many spheres and will play a critical role in social, political and economic reform.

That said, I may be the only one (?), but I felt Marc was frequently disabled from speaking by Charlie and his constant interruptions during Marc's responses. Charlie made this interview unclear and confused viewers / me on who was being interviewed.

Gelles  12/01/2011 07:50 PM Report

http://ustaxreform.us/.crs.htm <<=== index to related interviews including Jim Jones

Gelles  12/01/2011 06:43 AM Report

I can't remember what it is or where I put it. But I do recall it was all important and had the questions and the answers I know are vital to the task at hand.

How many of us have our facts and theories so neatly organized in our mind and mental storage facilities that we can go from hour to hour, person to person, and place to place, fully prepared to execute the plan and play the game?

Will there ever be help for us in the cloud that we can reach fast and often enough to make us a renaissance man to others and in the mirror?

Marc Benioff in a keynote speech can spin us around to share a vision of immense memory and instant recall of all we've known that we needed know. Its the intellectual revolution driving social progress from entropy to order for practical use in a cooperative world. And this all works in a hostile world at warp speed when we need it.

Are we thinking out loud in tech or poetry? Is there no end to BS is sales force on planet earth. Our emotions work like that. No manual is required. Look at me you bastard and I'll read you in an instant.

There is no reason for we're all so slow to correct what's wrong the instant that it happens. That's what we get paid for. We're the salesmen in the place who fight the fires and keep the wolves outside and the children safe.

As Charlie always asks, "What's new?" As every guest knows, "If I knew, would I tell you?"

Maybe it's a matter of containerization. The item, shelf, aisle, and wall. The cabinet, room, hall and mall. The library and the stacks, the hotel, town and city. Lay it all out on a continent, and connect to past and future. Is there anything better than words to contain all thought if not the real McCoy.

The real McCoy is for dinner, and it exits in three and four dimensions. OK, even more, when you're looking for trouble and find it.

The fifth dimension is money. It connects the brain to the heart. Some say that's sex not money. Others see no difference a lot of the time.

If there's more than one of us in the room, we cannot be equal.Yet we are in as many ways as we're not. Philanthropy is the oxygen in the room. With hydrogen we have limitless energy. Money is much like water. It puts fires out. But its not designed to stop the flood.

For those of us who want an address to be reached when we're in need we have got to create it. For those who hate the idea, anonymity and privacy is paramount. Nature's model of predator and prey is out. E=MC squared ruled that baby out. So who will you vote for? Not for anyone else. Every man a KING. Now make it stick to your wall. I've just thrown you a lifeline. Until you're old and good for nothing but dust.

[You might say I should read before sending. What fun would that be? Send whenever you finish. And bitch at CR Show for not having a checker to correct all error or let you do it later.]

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/01/2011 02:20 AM Report

His Guru list—Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Dalai Lama, Neil Young, Colin Powell—is interesting. He says they have 40 years of doing the same thing so they are Masters.

Perhaps Marc should team with Malcolm on the "Outliers" concept. 40 years does beat 10,000 hours though so perhaps really out-there outliers.

Gelles  11/30/2011 11:34 PM Report

Marc Benioff said what many prophets believe when they explain to other minds the promise of their vision. They believe there is a problem, like the ineffectiveness of the Info-tech revolution in relation to ending poverty, pollution, hate and war, etc.

And they believe in their vision of a solution, like a magically user-friendly system that connects the brains of voters or employees to lawmakers and entrepreneurial co-workers and bosses, without a user manual, more or less as effective as the connection between a newborn mammal with its mother to get the milk flowing to nourish the newborn instantly.

Nature built such intuitive instant learning systems over great gobs of time.

The social revolution, as part of the IT revolution, works fast, uses intuitive language learning tools and brains that have experienced recent cultural developments, and responds to genius effort at Salesforce.com (and other visionary sellers) to make good on promises made by Benioff and other like him.

Some negative comment here is betting on the past. I'm betting on Benioff, the cloud, the discarded user manual, the stripped down user terminal that will turn more and more to voice and well designed hand and finger movement and away from QWERTY and other obsolete tools.

Philanthropy is a good idea. Our current debt-constrained capitalist habits need radical revision to accomplish what we wrote in the PREAMBLES to the Declaration and the Constitution, to the wisdom of Franklin and Lincoln, and to the Second Bill of (Economic)Rights WWII aimed to deliver.

It would have been a disappointment to me if Benioff had picked a party or candidate at this early moment in time. His vision of social connections and technological potentials has not been put forth yet by anyone running for office.

It may be obvious to most that the "other side" is ignorant. But the past three years have not delivered what we hoped they would.

From my perspective, money communicates, language and codes communicate, brutal force communicates, and visions communicate too. Our goal is fair results more than just visions and ways to communicate them to others. But our legacy of law and economics is woefully short on "fair". We have witnessed the power of debt to spread "unfair". Debt is a product of law not economics. At the very least, the social revolution will have to be joined to equity not to law. Market prices will have share with prize juries the duty to offer usable numbers.

This interview opens the way for information and computation to deliver the blessings of liberty, genius and benevolent purpose. If these words are subjective, are we condemned to live as dumb animals? No we are not. But we know such words are not objective. And we have to accept that and still improve past solutions to practical problems even if we cannot improve on Shakespeare or Michelangelo.

rhec001  11/30/2011 08:56 PM Report

A lot gets clarified at Cloudforce in NY, suprisingly streamed and repeated on Facebook

http://apps.facebook.com/salesforce-tm/?ref=bookmarks&count=0&fb_source=bookmarks_apps&fb_bmpos=2_0

zb1  11/30/2011 07:58 PM Report

This guy is so full of it my TV started to stink. I hate to tell him that revolutions have been going on long before facbook and google ever existed.

All of his talk about companies spending money and changing the world sound nice but the schnook can't even say who he wants as president. If this guy can't understand the fundemental difference between the world envisioned by the Republican/Tparty (a world based on ignrorance, stupidity, hate, hypocrisy, and exploitation) and Obama he is completely clueless.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/30/2011 03:56 PM Report

Marc, I did not find any billboards in Tunisia thanking FaceBook. I did find one guy who made a cardboard sign thanking FaceBook and everyone seemed to photograph him as he walked around.

However, I did find a billboard about WikiLeaks:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/wikileaks-billboard-in-lo_n_840385.html

A billboard with the spectre of Julian Assange looms over the intersection of Highland Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. The sign, supportive of WikiLeaks, says "WikiLeaks: Giving Us The Truth When Everyone Else Refuses To."

I think is more about truth giving than FaceBook posting.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/30/2011 03:51 PM Report

Marc, thank you for the tip on Adbusters.

Here is what I found:

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html

"The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America.

We demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington. It's time for DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY, we're doomed without it."

jking  11/30/2011 03:12 PM Report

Preoccupation with the envelope and neglect of the content. Marshall M was well aware of this problem.

MelJ  11/30/2011 02:47 PM Report

Wow! That was an unbelievably vacuous conversation! Reminds me of Charlie's interviews with Dick Armey and Karl Rove. For the first few minutes, I thought it was a parody, like with Stephen Colbert. I couldn't believe Forbes had called Benioff's little web-widgets operation "innovative," but there it was! Shocking what passes for "technology" in this country.

I had thought for some time that the main reason Europe and Japan, and more recently China and India, have been eating our lunch technologically was that while we are very good at training scientists and engineers, giving them Ph.D.'s and post-doctoral experience, we have gotten dismally poor at finding something meaningful for them to do once they are trained. I know several Ph.D. physicists, and every single one of them is woefully underemployed.

Now I am beginning to believe, though, that a big part of the problem is what we think of as "technology," which shouldn't be too surprising in a country which suffers from such scientific and mathematical illiteracy. Marc Benioff (and the journalistic shills who shower him with praise) is the poster child for this problem, which is that "technology" consists predominantly of web widgets and electronic gadgets for teenagers. Facebook "innovative" and "forward-thinking"? You've got to be kidding me. Facebook is an online high-school yearbook! This "technology" revolution is starting to look like the "financial services" revolution: lots of heat and light, but no substance. Meanwhile, as Tom Friedman says, the green revolution is over, and we missed it. Hopefully someone will design a little web widget to tell us when the next revolution comes along, so we don't miss that.

Thank you, Charlie, for letting us all see behind the hype and realize that a lot of these tech pioneers are actually PR pioneers. My dad used to read Forbes magazine, and once told my brother-in-law, "The words in the magazine aren't that informative, but if you read between the lines, you learn a lot." Forbes's endorsement of Marc Benioff as a tech pioneer is an outstanding example of what my dad was saying.

Sorry to be so negative, and I do think that the show is a major intellectual asset to this country, even with guests like this. Maybe getting my blood boiling is good for the national dialogue.

REMant  11/30/2011 12:44 PM Report

I agreed with this as long as he stuck to his area of expertise, altho it lacked specifics. I thought, for instance, the observation about Gates good. I always reduce everything to a zero base myself and look at objectives as much as resources, benefits as well as costs, but I've not seen much of that in other ppl. I would have to agree with skeptics that most ppl are creatures of habit or, rather, perhaps, of imitation. But I certainly do not think tablets will replace PCs, unless they do all the things PCs will do, which I don't see happening anytime soon, and I think on the whole that he probably spends too much time with business models. Clouds and tablets, of course, are mainly tools of business, whose aim is service, not product.

IMHO we need to get philanthropy OUT of business. Philanthropy means the absence of free trade. It is mercantilism and protectionism. There is no reason why in a really free market some should have so much more than others. The irony is that the mercantilism arose mainly from the charitable impulse. Ppl have thought when they went to borrow money that banks were wonderful things. More so when the inflation created meant that they could pay back less than they took out and pocket the difference. But what has been the result?

I'm quite sure BTW we had mobs even before the printing press.