"Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences."

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Source : Jonathan Zittrain (2008). “The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It”, p.70, Yale University Press

Jonathan Zittrain

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“Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.”
“Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.”
“I could always tell when an organization was in good shape. I could tell because the manager of the organization would always be talking about how great the people in the organization were. If the manager was talking about anything other than how great people in the organization were, I knew that the organization was in bad shape. The way to manage an organization successfully is to manage it in such a way that you can be proud of the people with whom you are working. You have to find a way to interact with the people with whom you are working in a way that makes you proud of them.”
“I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

Source : "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.
“What we've noticed is that people latch onto our music, and are very, very supportive of it, even almost defensive about it. Quite fanatical, some fans, aren't they? Just like they are in England, once they get a hold of "their" band, they don't want their band to get too big anyways.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.”
“I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.”

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