Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn’t work. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
The Internet provides the access to resources, so it’s incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
There’s this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
It’s clear that people are going to download media files, and they’re going to talk to each other, and they’re going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
It’s what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they’re not going anywhere. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
It’s important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
Buzzwords and cliches – those are stock in trade. There’s nothing wrong with them. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what’s happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they’re all coming back up off the mat now. Michael Nesmith Read Quote
