Everytime I read an interview from the Gothamist...

I want to move to NYC. Everytime I go to NYC I can't see myself ever living there. Clay does a good job of showing both the good and bad about NYC. I'll list some of my favorite thoughts, but really, just take 2 mins longer to read the whole thing:

The thing that will change the future in the future is the same thing that changed the future in the past...The narrow sense of freedom, in tech terms, is a freedom to tinker, to prod and poke and break and fix things. Good technologies -- the PC, the internet, HMTL -- enable this. Bad technologies -- cellphones, set-top boxes -- forbid it, in hardware or contract.

The internet means you don't have to convince anyone that something is a good idea before trying it, and that in turn means that you don't need to be a huge company to change the world.

What's your New York motto?
New York is 45 stars and 7 million extras, but it's a different 45 every day.

I am sitting on the 4, simultaneously visualizing my new life as an Idahoian and scrounging pennies out of my jeans pockets. "82, 83, 84, 85." Bingo! Budweiser time. Budweiser has the obvious downside of tasting bad, but has the twin upsides of being 5% alcohol and 85 cents a can, which tips the scales.

This realization depresses me even more -- five years busting my ass at my chosen profession, and I'm sitting on the subway at two in the morning counting pennies so I can get a single can of lousy beer and go home alone.

That's New York -- you're rollerblading along, grooving to some Foghat on the iPod, and you get lapped by a gyrating speed-demon in a special lycra rollerblading uniform who is clearly The Greatest Rollerblader in the History of the World.

Other Gothamist interviews that I've enjoyed