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Steve Case
Co-Founder, America Online
More than a decade ago we started investing in what we called parental controls, because we felt it was really important that kids had access to the Internet, but it's equally important that parents had some control over what they accessed. And rather than we deciding sort of on our own what was or wasn't appropriate for a particular child, we thought it was important to put those tools in the hands of each parent and let them decide. And some would be very strict and some would be very lenient, but ultimately we felt it was important for parents to decide.
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Steve Case
Co-Founder, America Online
We felt it was important, in a world where access was becoming more and more critical, that we not have a digital divide between the haves and the have-nots. So we created several initiatives, and even personally through our Case Foundation, created something called "Power Up," and built 1,000 technology centers, mostly in Boys and Girls Clubs, but also in YMCAs, churches and other places, to really provide access to computers and Internet in low income neighborhoods and housing projects, so that people -- when they went to school and some homework was assigned that required the use of the computer -- the kids who couldn't afford a computer at home could still participate and wouldn't be left behind.
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Dale Chihuly
Master Glass Artist
Dale Chihuly: I'm sure I don't remember my first sale of artwork, but I remember the first sales kind of experience, which I didn't like. And it had a big effect on me, in that I was on my way to Europe, to study glassblowing, and I wanted to make some money, so I went to one of those craft fairs and set up a glassblowing furnace. I was going to blow glass and sell the glass. And I did that. I would have failed completely had a friend of mine not come by the second day, 'cause I was blowing glass all day long, and nobody was buying anything because they were watching me blow glass. Then this friend of mine came by and said, "Let me run this operation for you. You're gonna blow glass on the hour for 15 minutes, and then for 45 minutes we're gonna sell it." So the second day, we made a couple thousand dollars, which really helped my trip to Europe. But I really disliked the whole -- I never did that again. And all the more reason -- at that point I was just a student -- and all the more reason why I wanted to be a professor so I didn't have to sell. And there weren't a lot of selling experiences between then and about six years later, eight years later, when I had my sort of first one-man show in a gallery. At that time, it was 1976, I arbitrarily put a price on the pieces of about 1,000 dollars each, which was higher, I think, than any other craft person in any field was charging. And I wasn't really that well known. But I knew I didn't want to be making these things in production, and I knew that the only way -- if I could sell them -- that I would have to get a fair price for them. Fortunately, some of them sold, and that was the beginning of my commercial career.
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