@johnbattelle on @mike's podcast:

"We are at this moment, where it seems there is an incredible amount of opportunity ... it's very exciting"

"... but we have to get over the extraodinary inertia of the system we've built overt the last 30 years.... this unholy amalgam of steroidal capitalism and essentially oligarchic companies that have created a governance system based on their terms of service and licensing agreements ... which will ensure the world we can imagine won't happen."