In October 1997, Rick Borovoy and Sunil Vemuri ran the "meme tag" project at the Media Lab sponsor meetings. Below are a few of the memes.
Value is not in the content; |
it's in the links. |
—Ken Haase |
It's not multimedia; |
it's appropriate media |
—Walter Bender |
Content is a commodity; |
context is the value added |
—Walter Bender |
Technology is anything |
invented after you were born. |
—Alan Kay |
HDTV stands for |
highly dubious TV. |
—Walter Bender |
The problem's not what you don't know; |
it's what you know that just ain't so. |
—Josh Billings |
The problem with airplane travel |
is that it is too safe. |
—Marvin Minsky |
I want a good storyteller to |
tell "me" a good story. |
—Walter Bender |
Interactivity is the exception |
rather than the rule. |
—Walter Bender |
The Internet has grown so |
rapidly because it's transparent. |
—Walter Bender |
Compressed data should be |
ammenable to manipulation. |
—Walter Bender |
3 secrets to good writing: |
(1) revise; (2) revise; (3) revise |
—Don Murray |
When charging the mound, |
hit the pitcher with your bat, |
but don't bite his ear! |
—Walter Bender |
The Daily Us and the Daily Me are |
part of the same continuum. |
—Walter Bender |
There is no bigger lie |
than a picture never lies. |
—Walter Bender |
The medium is not the message; |
the message is the message. |
—Walter Bender |
Interactivity is orthagonal |
to personalization. |
—Walter Bender |
Color demands a response. |
—Nat Jacobson |
Color is colors, |
plural. |
—Joseph Albers |
You can't teach calculus |
to a cat. |
—Marvin Minsky |
I'd rather hear a thousand lies |
than one truth. |
—Jerome Lettvin |
AMEX knows more about me |
than my computer does. |
—Walter Bender |
There'll always be news, ergo |
we'll always need editors. |
—Walter Bender |
On swinging a bat: |
It's all in the hips. |
—Walter Bender |
Hear and forget; see and remember; |
do and understand. |
—Mitchel Resnick |
It's hard to get |
younger. |
—Jerome Wiesner |
Replace nothing soon—an anagram |
for Nicholas Negroponte |
—Walter Bender |
The best thing about MIT |
is the students. |
—Walter Bender |
The Internet is a mandate for a |
"credability" industry. |
—Walter Bender |
The problem is... |
middle management. |
—Walter Bender |
E-mail is |
the killer app. |
—Walter Bender |
I want a pause button |
for live TV. |
—Walter Bender |
License-plate-to-email conversion |
is the future of road rage. |
—Walter Bender |
I need "Quicken" |
for my closet. |
—Walter Bender |
The two hours we spend commuting |
are the next big opportunity. |
—Walter Bender |
The wires write for everyone, |
but not for "anyone". |
—Walter Bender |
Consciousness is |
God's debugger. |
—Bruce Blumberg |
We all learn from experience; |
preferably someone else's. |
—Alan Kay |
Reading is thinking |
with someone else's brain. |
—Alan Kay |
Access isn't the problem; |
it how to realize value. |
—Walter Bender |
Wearables mean your right hand |
knows what your left is doing. |
—Nicholas Negroponte |
It is better to cannibalize |
yourself, than be eaten. |
—Nicholas Negroponte |
The future is best seen |
with peripheral vision. |
—Nicholas Negroponte |
Point of view is worth |
40 IQ points. |
—Alan Kay |
Sports is the only excuse for |
live TV. |
—Walter Bender |
The Media Lab works on the |
non-essential ...its essential |
—John Maeda |
My car should tell my TV when |
to watch for tire ads. |
—Walter Bender |
Emotion is our response to |
violations of our expectations. |
—Walter Bender |
Photography is about frames; |
cinematography is about scenes. |
—Walter Bender |
The problem isn't technology; |
it's the people who use it. |
—Walter Bender |
The Media Lab is most valuable |
as a place to make mistakes. |
—Walter Bender |
JAVA's not about OS independence; |
rather data with sense of itself. |
—Walter Bender |
The network is the computer. |
—Will Glesnes |
You can't |
monopolize creativity. |
—Walter Bender |
You can only reuse |
software you understand. |
—Anonymous |
Things that think don't |
obviate people that think. |
—Walter Bender |
and some more recent memes...
Be positive |
and as vague as possible. |
—William J. Mitchell |
The Media Lab is |
too narrow. |
—William J. Mitchell |
I know how to solve |
all of their problems. |
—Neil Gershenfeld |