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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

The plague did not lead to Europe's economic collapse. Rather, Europe's currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

Nothing is sacred. And, more importantly ... the 'nothing' you end up with is truly sacred.

Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and
mortgages became derivative investments.

the industrial ideal: anyone can request work, do so anonymously, never meet the employee, and reject the results without ever paying. The

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain's own ability to remember things.

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

The phones are smarter but we are dumber.

Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit.

Keep the progress, but recover the lost values. Technically, then he's talking about renaissance: the rebirth of old ideas in a new framework.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

She reverse engineered a startup based on market conditions, industry trends, and nascent investor fads.

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Digiphrenia - the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

We're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.

The smartest hackers understand that their skill at hacking technology may be less important than their skill at hacking the digital marketplace.