“As Microsoft, Apple, and Google go to war in mobile, search, and on the desk­top, expect to see more of this cash deployed through acqui­si­tions. (And one of these days, one of these com­pa­nies may actu­ally buy some­thing big.)”

“Next time you hear some­one invoke “infor­ma­tion wants to be free” as a jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for demand­ing free-​​as-​​in-​​no-​​payment-​​expected con­tent, ask them: pre­cisely what con­tent have you released for free lately?”

“If the Inter­net has a motif, it is rock ‘n’ roll’s Protes­tant Ref­or­ma­tion thrash­ing against the orches­tral One Church. Rock ‘n’ roll gets lots of wee kirks built in every hill and dale in which parish­ioners can find reli­gion in their own ways; choral music erects majes­tic cathe­drals that hum­ble and amaze, but take three gen­er­a­tions of labor­ers to build.

The inter­est­ing bit isn’t what it costs to repli­cate some big, pre-​​Internet busi­ness or project.

The inter­est­ing bit is what it costs to do some­thing half as well as some big, pre-​​Internet busi­ness or project.”