Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas
Jefferson
A technology of freedom aims at pluralism of expression
rather than a dissemination of preferred ideas.
- Ithiel de Sola Pool
Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.
- A.J. Liebling
If consultants had been hired to evaluate the market for
printing a decade or two after its invention, they would have
concluded that the new technology was vastly overrated.
Scribes were already producing the important books
efficiently, and the new printers produced mainly the same
old texts, such as the Bible, which were readily available to
the tiny minority who were literate.
- Ithiel de Sola Pool
Yeats
on Usenet:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere
the ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity.
Miller recently introduced a clear beer that looks like
mineral water in a beer bottle and is said to taste not
unlike it.
- Economist, 1993-05-29
The West won't contain communism, it will transcend
communism. It won't bother to denounce it, it will
dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose
last pages are even now being written.
- Ronald
Reagan, 1982
If you're afraid of criticism, don't say anything,
don't do anything, and don't be anything.
- Marian
Wright Edelman
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir
cevinpl!
- John Perry Barlow
If you're a winner, you don't go to the
government. You're too busy. You have too many customers.
It's the people with no customers who end up besieging
the government.... The dog technologies run to Washington,
decked out like poodles. The politician is always the
dog's best friend.
- George Gilder
I really just walked into my kitchen and said to myself,
"flying toasters," and went back to the office and
coded it
- Jack Eastman, formerly a scientist in high-energy
physics, who is now in charge of a group of 15 programmers at
Berkeley Systems
Well, you know when you're sitting in a chair and then you lean back so you're just on two legs and then you lean too far and you almost fall over but just at the last second you catch yourself.
I feel like that all the time.
- Steven Wright
...In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such
Perfection that the Map of a Single province covered the
space of an entire City, and the Map of the Empire itself an
entire Province. In the course of Time, these Extensive maps
were found somehow wanting, and so the College of
Cartographers evolved a Map of the Empire that was of the
same Scale as the Empire and that coincided with it point for
point.
- From Travels of Praiseworthy Men (1658) by J.A.
Suarez Miranda in Jorge
Luis Borges's "Of Exactitude in Science" A
Universal History of Infamy (1972)
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbles, or the doer of deeds could
have done them better. The credit belongs to the man actually
in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again
and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
devotions, and spends himself on a worthy cause, who at the
best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and
who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, and so his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
- Theodore
Roosevelt, speaking at the dedication of the Panama
Canal
If the United States government had tried to come up with
a scheme to spread its brand of capitalism and its emphasis
on political liberalism around the world, it couldn't
have invented a better model than the Internet.
- Don Heath, president of the Internet Society
Nea onnim no sua a ohu. (He who does not know can know
from learning.)
- Akan
Proverb
In theory, there is no difference between theory and
practice. But, in practice, there is.
- Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
What is the difference between exploring and being
lost?
The journey is the destination.
- Dan Eldon, as written in his posthumously published
journal
When I have a vision for my life, money is then a tool to
make the vision a reality. If I have no vision for my life,
then money is in fact the only way I can gauge my
worth.
- The Reverend Dan Matthews
I hate writing; I love having written.
- Dorothy
Parker
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I
work the more I have of it.
- Thomas
Jefferson
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry
David Thoreau
The TV business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a
long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and
good men die like dogs.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Doveriai no proveriai. (Trust but verify.)
- Russian proverb, as quoted by Reagan
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and
civilization is as being about how the world registers and
processes information. Certainly that's what sex is
about; that's what history is about.
- Seth Lloyd
In War: Resolution;
In Defeat: Defiance;
In Victory: Magnanimity;
In Peace: Good Will.
- Winston Churchill
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism
which has proceeded from the womb and long gestation of
progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far
as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a
given time by the brain and purpose of man.
- W.E.
Gladstone
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