I just placed a bit of wisdom from Tycho Brahe at Penny Arcade in my quotes file. I credited them and put in the domain name as well. Then I got to wondering... I'm going to have this quotes file forever, effectively. Somehow I don't think they are going to be doing these comics forever. What happens five years or ten years down the road for all these sites? Obviously the corporate ones are going to stick around, but what of the others? What happens to The Morning News? What happens to Pray Station? It doesn't even get into the financial demands of running a popular site (not a problem here). People get bored. They move on. Good sites will disappear. Will they get replaced? Or will the steady demise of the open Internet reduce the flood of self-publishers to a trickle? I see no sign of this happening now, but what about when everyone has "been there, done that?" Right now there's new blood. Eventually the Internet will reach saturation. The novelty will be gone. So will my attribution of the quote be relevant ten years from now? We're all assuming a certain permanence, or even if we're not, we're thinking only a couple years into the future. All long-term thinking is on a large scale, not the small. So what happens in ten years? Who's to know?
For what it's worth, the quote was: If it doesn't have broadband, then it had God Damned Well better have an open bar.