“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.”— Tim Berners-Lee, w3.org
“There is nothing quite like ignorance combined with a driving need to succeed to force rapid learning.”— Ed Catmull, amazon.com
“People— once they became metropolitan, once they developed cities, and once they developed a high degree of trade between cities— began to gather together, not on the basis of tribal loyalties, but on the basis of mental loyalties. People who shared a common idea or people who shared a common emotio…”— Howard Bloom, amazon.com
“Wright holds that the city will inevitably decay and disappear because he imagines electrification and physical mobility as the dynamic factors in contemporary history, sweeping and carrying all before them.”— Morton Gabriel White, amazon.com
“When the first market towns emerged in Italy, they didn’t magically create some higher-level group consciousness. They simply widened the pool of minds that could come up with and share good ideas. This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network…”— Steven Johnson, amazon.com