“I am a member of the MTV generation to a degree. My attention span isn’t terribly long”

Jeff (Dougie) Zucker, 26, Today Show producer

“Boomers are finally growing up, and we don’t hold it against them that they forced so many of us to beat them to it.”

Kate Fillon, Toronto

“I’m not afraid, only the strong survive. I’m strong.”

Boy, 16, New York City

If they can’t say it in an hour, they ought to put it on a tape.”

13 year-old Rashad Mobley, on going to church

“We’re a secret generation. Nobody knows what we think.”

Bethany Ericson, 22, Brighton, MA

“We are lost between doing for ourselves and doing nothing at all.”

Lynnelle Detzler, student, American University

“We’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here.”

Spurtlegurgles, singing kid’s song heard often on Nickelodeon through the 1980s.