Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.