#in

Television is the original social network. Consumers love great television, but they also love talking about television. Sharing with friends the thrill of the last episode, debating what will happen next, working to enlist friends to watch the same shows that you love. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#also #consumers #debating #enlist #episode

The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous studies validate that the U.S. is a global innovation powerhouse. The leading Internet and e-commerce companies are located here. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#broadband #china #companies #country #e-commerce

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#application #applications #around #engineered #essence

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#buy #digital #ends #fix #floating

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#call #click #eating #free #go

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race. ↗

— Richard Powers

#luxury #men #only #race #white

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #devices #infernal #infernal-devices #life

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. ↗

— Robert Powell

#boy #educate #encouraged #himself #instead

There is no teaching to compare with example. ↗

— Robert Powell

#example #teaching

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing