“Commodity information (everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information (you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants to be expensive.” — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Abundant information wants to be free. Scarce information wants to be expensive.” — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept and only… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Eastern mysticism embraced both the tangible and the intangible, through the yin and yang of duality. The god Shiva was both the creator and… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the very word “zero” has Indian origins: The Indian word for zero was sunya, meaning “empty,” which the Arabs turned into sifr. Western… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“So everything is an algorithm now. And just as every Google search uses its algorithms to produce a different result for each person searching,… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“professional journalists who are seeing their jobs evaporate are typically those whose employers failed to find a new role in a world of abundant… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“In the atoms economy, which is to say most of the stuff around us, things tend to get more expensive over time. But in… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“But when you want to mark a number on an abacus, what do you do if there are no stones in a column? The… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they’re not so pushy about it.” — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“The way to compete with free is to move past the abundance to find the adjacent scarcity.” — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“So, back to the future. Today we are seeing a return to a new sort of cottage industry. Once again, new technology is giving… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“His most famous quote is even simpler. It is so obvious that if anyone else had said it they may have been mocked. Having… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
