It is hardly possible to overrate the value … of placing human beings in contact with others dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar… Such communication has always been, and particularly in the present age, one of the primary sources of progress.
[quoted in The Social Origins Of Good Ideas by Ronald Burt]
[from The myth of the creative class]When we talk about the Google age, then, we do talk about a new society and the rules I explore in my book are the rules of that society, built on connections, links, transparency, openness, publicness, listening, trust, wisdom, generosity, efficiency, markets, niches, platforms, networks, speed, and abundance.
[from Pessimism From Venture Capitalists - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog]Self-serving protestations to the contrary aside, there is no institutional venture market without regular and sizable IPO exits. With 10-year venture returns set to soon lag long term S&P returns, this is an asset class in a serious state of brokenness.
The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.
- Robert Metcalfe
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.
- Kenneth Boulding
A quip about the steep decline in ad revenue in magazines:
[from In Deepening Ad Decline, Sales Fall 8% at Magazines by RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA]“The joke here is, ‘Flat is the new up,’ ” said Thomas J. Wallace, editorial director at Condé Nast.
Raymond Williams.There are no masses, there are only ways of seeing people as masses.
[via Jay Rosen]