[T]he diamond and other precious stones are focuses of light, and essences of colour which seem expressly created to ornament on a small scale the human body with all the splendours which adorn the universe on a large scale. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875
And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity thats far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before. – Marc Andreessen
