Scott Rosenberg:

It's almost always better to correct than to unpublish.

Decius:

In my experience the answer to bad speech has always been more speech.

Seth Godin:

Some say that the problem of our age is that continuous partial attention, this never ending non-stop distraction, addles the brain and prevents us from being productive. Not quite.

The danger is not distraction, the danger is the ability to hide.

Alex Pareene:

When this is the bed you make, you can't be too shocked when monsters hide under it.

Evan Williams:

In the beginning, it was like a million little islands, some of them were bigger islands. If you create something on the web, you're your own island and you try to get people to visit your island.

On the mobile phone, you don't have your own island. You're renting land.

Adam Honore, the research director at Aite Group:

[Unstructured data] is the next wave of trading.

Ruth Simon And James R. Hagerty:

23% of all mortgage borrowers in the US are underwater.

Decius:

Imagine if they all walked.

Charlie Stross:

We're now on the threshold of truly understanding how little we understand.

David Foster Wallace:

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"