“The question about pay walls is whether they are the *best* way to make the *most* money.

– Jeff Jarvis, with a great list of Hard economic lessons for news

“There was a window in the 120 years of the record business where performers made loads and loads of money out of records. But it was a very small window — say, 15 years between 1975 and 1990.

– Mick Jagger, on the rise of illegal file sharing, in an interview with The New York Times

“it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

– Clay Shirky, The Collapse of Complex Business Models