“1. If it’s digital, sooner or later it’s going to be free.” — Chris Anderson Digital Copy Share Image
“The way to compete with free is to move past the abundance to find the adjacent scarcity.” — Chris Anderson Abundance Copy Share Image
“Abundant information wants to be free. Scarce information wants to be expensive.” — Chris Anderson Data Copy Share Image
“2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they’re not so pushy about it.” — Chris Anderson Atoms Copy Share Image
The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price,… — Chris Anderson Above Copy Share Image
And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical… — Chris Anderson 100 years 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 Algorithm Copy Share Image
And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn. — Chris Anderson Anticipate Copy Share Image
Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's… — Chris Anderson Abundance Copy Share Image
“Free is not a magic bullet. Giving away what you do will not make you rich by itself. You have to think… — Chris Anderson Free 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 Mathematics Copy Share Image
“Inspiration can't be performed. It's an audience response to authenticity, courage, selfless work, and genuine wisdom.” — CHRIS ANDERSON Courage 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
“His most famous quote is even simpler. It is so obvious that if anyone else had said it they may have been… — Chris Anderson Famous quote Copy Share Image
“Every field of knowledge is different, but they are all connected. And they often rhyme. This means that something in the way… — Chris Anderson Ideas 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
“Eastern mysticism embraced both the tangible and the intangible, through the yin and yang of duality. The god Shiva was both the… — Chris Anderson Mysticism Copy Share Image
“Cross-subsidies are the essence of the phrase “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” That means that one way or another… — Chris Anderson Food Copy Share Image
And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or… — Chris Anderson About Copy Share Image
“It’s true: free does tend to level the playing field between professionals and amateurs. As more people create content for nonmonetary reasons,… — Chris Anderson Amateurs 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
“But when you want to mark a number on an abacus, what do you do if there are no stones in a… — Chris Anderson Mathematics 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
“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
“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
“Today, nuclear energy costs about the same as coal, which is to say that it didn’t change the economics of electricity one… — Chris Anderson Climate 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
“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
“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
“The Greeks, meanwhile, explicitly rejected zero. Since their mathematical system was based on geometry, numbers had to represent space of one sort… — Chris Anderson Geometry Copy Share Image
“When the tools of production are available to everyone, everyone becomes a producer.” — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“as Joe Kraue, CEA of JotSpot ... puts it, "Up until now, the focus has been on dozens of markets of millions,… — Chris Anderson Investing Copy Share Image
