Philip Rosedale Quotations

Everything you're seeing now, the community built. It's part of a new weird nation where all bets are off. Here, the future is yours to create.

By nature of its unlimited potential, Second Life has already attracted a large community of creative individuals from a wide range of disciplines. By creating the Linden Lab Fellowship, we hope that we will encourage students of the expressive arts to explore the potential of the virtual world, for the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art.

It's still comparatively small now, but I see endless potential. Realize that 10 million objects have so far been built by our members. I'm stunned by people's endless desire to create.

It's a bit like The Matrix . We provide the land, and the community builds the actual world, which gives everyone a huge sense of being pioneers in a great experiment.

Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.

I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country.

Do It With Style It's not enough that we want to change the world. It's not enough that our product is incredibly complex and our vision is vast and shifting. We're not just going to win, we're going to do it with style. That means a lot of different things, and a lot of what it means can't be captured in a handbook.