"We are living through the largest expansion of expressive capability in the history of the human race."

- Clay Shirky, Adjunct Professor in the graduate interactive telecommunications program, NYU

[Source: New York Times, January 15, 2007]

"It is a strange juxtaposition: BitTorrent, with 35 employees, and the company whose dominance in video sales is so threatened by online file trading: 1.8-million-employee WalMart."

"In its current state, the Web is often described as being in the Lego phase, with all of its different parts capable of connecting to one another. Those who envision the next phase, Web 3.0, see it as an era when machines will start to do seemingly intelligent things."
- John Markoff

[Source: New York Times, November 12, 2006]

"The truth is, what Google is doing now is transferring the wealth out of the hands of rights holders into Google. So media companies around the world are all threatened by Google."

- Steven A. Ballmer

[Source: New York Times, November 12, 2006]

This is how you measure hip-hop stardom now: not through big-budget videos but through no-budget videos.

[Source: NY Times, October 19, 2006]

It is interesting to me that in an age of blogs, Webs and texting that a book, something which is essentially a tortoise, very quaint in its own way, can carry the most immediacy.