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“Email did more than facilitate the exchange of messages between two computer users. It led to the creation of virtual communities, ones that, as predicted in 1968 by Licklider and Taylor, were “selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

“it does something others cannot.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.”

J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor,
“The Computer as a Communication Device,” Science and Technology , Apr. 1968.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

“In a single tweet, Yahoo! summarized Mayer’s plan as a chain reaction of “people then products then traffic then revenue.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future