All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Larry Niven
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
Jesse James Garrett
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson
Defect-free software does not exist.
Wietse Venema
