Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.
We're going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up
Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.
History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.
Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot.
Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.
You are the imagination of yourself.
The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.
The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want. So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (. . ) This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want.
Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up