It is wrong to say that demand creates supply. It is the other way around. - Henry Ford

http://www.jyu.fi/library/elkok/isbn9513911675.pdf

"Invention is the mother of necessity." - Thorstein Veblen

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/invention/

" Well now home entertainment was my baby's wish
So I hopped into town for a satellite dish
I tied it to the top of my Japanese car
I came home and I pointed it out into the stars
A message came back from the great beyond
There's fifty-seven channels and nothin' on." - Bruce Springsteen

"If we believe we "own" the customer we will quickly die." - Juha Toivari, EVP, Head of Authentication and Certificate Services, Nordea Bank.

Source: IDman conference speech, London, July 2004

"The technology that preserved the balance of our history--between uses of our culture that were free and uses of our culture that were only upon permission--has been undone. The consequence is that we are less and less a free culture, more and more a permission culture." - Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture

http://blogspace.com/freeculture/Introduction

Understanding the open source process can generate new perspectives on very old and essential problems of social cooperation. And it can provide an early perspective on some of the institutional, political, and economic consequences for human societies of the telecommunications and Internet revolutions." -- Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/WEBSUC.pdf

"Cynicism about new technologies shouldn't blind us to the way the business is changing. New ways of organizing emerge periodically -- and can be of huge significance. Open source may well be among them." - Matthew Lynn, Bloomberg.net

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_lynn&sid=aqq4dVXwLQ8Y