“Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief...” — Ethan Zuckerman Quote

“Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.”

“Creativity is an import-export business.”

“A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.”

“A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.”

“If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008.”

“It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.”