I Became A Real Free

From The Business Point Of View—not To Overstate It—intellectual Property Is Dead; Long Live Intellectual Process. Long Live Service; Long Live Performance.

What's Really Going On Here Is, This Is A Media Shift. It's Comparable To What Happened In The 1950s And The Birth Of Electronic Mass Media Back Then.this Is The Birth Of A New Kind Of Personal Media, Where, Instead Of We're All Watching One Program, We're All Watching Each Other. And The History Of Media Makes It Really Clear. Whenever We Have A Big Innovation, The First Wave Of Stuff We Do Is Pretty Crummy. The Printing Press Gave Us Pornography, Cheap Thrillers, And How-to Books. Television Gave Us Newt Minow's Vast Wasteland.

I Had A Lot Of Successes, But What Really Made Me Fearless Was My Complete Failure At Zidd-davis. Once You've Lived Through That, You Know You Can Survive, And You're Not As Scared... There's Nothing To Build Confidence Like Real Achievement, But Also Like Real Failure.

When I Was A Young Student, I Thought Grow-ups Would Come And Make Things Work. Now I Realize That Grown-ups Are Just Kids With Wrinkles.

In The Sense That People Who Produce Things And Work Get Rewarded, Statistically. You Don't Get Rewarded Precisely For Your Effort, But In Russia You Got Rewarded For Being Alive, But Not Very Well Rewarded.