Aphorisms Glamour

"Who is Mr. Putin?’ The question popped up when Boris Yeltsin introduced him as the new Prime-Minister in August 1999. It quickly became an aphorism, but eight years later that question is still in the air."

"A decade and a half into the great online experiment, the last debates over free versus pay online are ending. In 2007 The New York Times went free; this year, so will much of The Wall Street Journal. (The remaining fee-based parts, new owner Rupert Murdoch announced, will be "really special ... and, sorry to tell you, probably more expensive." This calls to mind one version of Stewart Brand's original aphorism from 1984: "Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive ... That tension will not go away.")"