“The laws of probability operate everywhere and that being the case, somewhere in the world there is the luckiest person. I mean if you were to go around the world and make a record of the luck in the lives of all the people on earth, and put them on a chart, you'd have a chart like a bell curve. And…”— Cormac McCarthy, oprah.com
“The normal experience of social software is failure. If you go into Yahoo groups and you map out the subscriptions, it is, unsurprisingly, a power law. There's a small number of highly populated groups, a moderate number of moderately populated groups, and this long, flat tail of failure. And the fa…”— Clay Shirky, shirky.com