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“In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn’t better content cost more?“

But increasingly the economy inhabits a space.

“The invention of communication allowed life to evolve from globular organisms into fantastic beings, just as networks allow place-based firms to blossom into fantastic spaces.”

Don’t forget the bigger picture

“Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It’s hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures.”

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses … behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights”

— Muhammad Ali

Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains

“This bodes ill for a democracy, because most voters — the people making decisions about how the country runs — aren’t blank slates. They already have beliefs, and a set of facts lodged in their minds. The problem is that sometimes the things they think they know are objectively, provably false. And in the presence of the correct information, such people react very, very differently than the merely uninformed. Instead of changing their minds to reflect the correct information, they can entrench themselves even deeper.”

"You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can’t be conquered; you conquer yourself – your hopes, your fears."

— Jim Whittiker