Next Quotes

“The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability—true stability—is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.”
― Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened

“Inside every alienated hacker who thinks he stands for the “good things that ultimately don’t matter to most businesses” there is a tycoon struggling to get out.”
― Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened

“And who would deny that the consumer demand for ever more stuff at ever cheaper prices is one of the great deterministic forces in history?”
― Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened

“By its nature the Internet undermined anyone whose status depended on a privileged access to information. But you couldn’t”
― Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened

“A general collapse in the importance of formal training was a symptom of post-Internet life; knowledge, like the clothing that went with it, was being informalized. Casual thought went well with casual”
― Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened

“If you’re not interested in the thing, and if you’re just in it for the money, then you’re not really going to have a sense of achievement.”
― Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened

“People like Justin Frankel and Daniel Sheldon linger on the fringe until they dream up something that has great commercial potential. Then some big company swoops in and buys them, or they give birth to the big company themselves.”
― Michael Lewis, Next: The Future Just Happened