Media Durability Quotes

Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

I feel more reassured with physical media. Entertainment is something that will not just become digital.

As long as I'm alive, I don't think Next Media will change.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.