“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept… — Chris Anderson Daily life 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… — Chris Anderson Yin and yang 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… — 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… — Chris Anderson Google search 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… — Chris Anderson Wall street 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.… — Chris Anderson Economics 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… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they’re not so pushy about it.” — Chris Anderson Freedom Copy Share Image
“1. If it’s digital, sooner or later it’s going to be free.” — Chris Anderson Sooner or later 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… — Chris Anderson Business 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… — Chris Anderson World cup Copy Share Image
“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a… — Chris Anderson Beheading Copy Share Image
“Commodity information (everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information (you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants… — Chris Anderson Data Copy Share Image
“In Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, society is divided into two groups: one of planners and thinkers living in luxury high above the Earth,… — Chris Anderson Community Copy Share Image
“This is one of the negative implications of free. People often don’t care as much about things they don’t pay for, and… — Chris Anderson Greed Copy Share Image
“We're strange creatures, we humans. At one level, we just want to eat, drink, play, and acquire more stuff. But life on… — Chris Anderson Human nature Copy Share Image
“Even after most cultures established monetary economies, day-to-day transactions within close-knit social groups, from families to tribes, was still mostly without price.… — Chris Anderson Economics Copy Share Image