Quotations I like

While face-to-face con­tact with friends was gen­er­ally pre­ferred, about one-third of users said they would rather com­mu­ni­cate by social media than by tele­phone. A Sur­vey by Emar­keter

As we turn on search engines to answer our deep­est ques­tions, we’ll con­tinue to learn more about our­selves. Bill Tancer — Click

Why are we try­ing to mea­sure social media like a tra­di­tional chan­nel any­way? Social media touches every facet of busi­ness and is more an exten­sion of good busi­ness ethics.  Erick Qual­man — Social­nomics

You can’t buy atten­tion any­more. Hav­ing a huge bud­get doesn’t mean any­thing in social media… The old media par­a­digm was PAY to PLAY. Now you get back what you authen­ti­cally put it. You’ve got to be will­ing to PLAY to PAY.  Alex Bogusky, Co-Chairman, CP&B. — quoted by Erick Qual­man Social­nomics

When I am asked about the ROI of social media some­times an appro­pri­ate response is What’ s the ROI of your phone? Erick Qual­man — Social­nomics

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win.  Mahatma Gandhi

The only thing that will redeem mankind is coop­er­a­tion. Bertrand Rus­sel

The plight grow­ing of Wikipedia is sim­i­lar to prob­lems of urban plan­ning. Lih Andrew, The Wikipedia Revolution

Yale Law pro­fes­sor Yochai Ben­kler, 2 moti­va­tions to be a Wikipedian:
1) Socio-psychological reward of inter­act­ing with oth­ers
2) The hedo­nic per­sonal grat­i­fi­ca­tion of the task
Yochai Ben­kler, Lih Andrew, The Wikipedia Revolution

Remem­ber the Golden Rule: Treat oth­ers as you would have them treat you—even if they are new. We were all new once. Wikipedia

When you look at the emer­gence of these com­mu­nity cul­tures, it is fas­ci­nat­ing to see how they came about. Lih Andrew, The Wikipedia Revolution

A dif­fer­ent lan­guage is a dif­fer­ent vision of life. Fed­erico Fellini.

Lan­guage is not an abstract con­struc­tion of the learned, or of dic­tio­nary mak­ers, but it is some­thing aris­ing out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affec­tions, tastes, of long gen­er­a­tions of human­ity, and has its based broad and low, close to the ground. Noah Web­ster