“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting an…”— Douglas Adams, amazon.co.uk
“Big public companies have learned they don't have to invest in R&D. All they have to do is talk to their VC friends and buy their best Companies.”— Mark Cuban, youtube.com
“Convenience has the ability to make other options unthinkable. Once you have used a washing machine, laundering clothes by hand seems irrational, even if it might be cheaper. After you have experienced streaming television, waiting to see a show at a prescribed hour seems silly, even a little undign…”— Tim Wu, nytimes.com
“Convenience has the ability to make other options unthinkable. Once you have used a washing machine, laundering clothes by hand seems irrational, even if it might be cheaper. After you have experienced streaming television, waiting to see a show at a prescribed hour seems silly, even a little undign…”— Tim Wu, nytimes.com
“Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human decisions, it may not offer the illicit thrill of Freud’s unconscious sexual desires or the mathematical elegance of the economist’s incentives. Convenience is boring. But boring is not the sam…”— Tim Wu, nytimes.com
“Find me when the lights go down Signing in and signing out Gods descend to take me home Find me staring at my phone”— MGMT, open.spotify.com
“There was a time (still in living memory) when “virtual” was a free word in the English language. It meant “almost true” or “for all intents and purposes, but not completely, not truly.” One could say, “I was virtually happy.” Were you truly happy? No, you weren’t, because adhering to the “virtually…”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“We think we are creating the system, but the system is also creating us. We build the system, we live in its midst, and we are changed.”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“We think we are creating the system for our own purposes. We believe we are making it in our own image. We call the microprocessor the “brain”; we say the machine has “memory.” But the computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very slim part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic,…”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“What is it about the Internet, with its pretty graphics and simple clicks, that makes users feel so inundated; and about the spreadsheet—so complicated a tool—that makes them bold? The received wisdom about user-friendliness is challenged here. Human beings, I think, do not like to be condescended t…”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“Once we were impressed by buildings; now we are impressed by virtual on-line spaces, that’s all.”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the accentuation and inflection of languages, and made “bad grammar” possible.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com