“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.”
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“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
“You affect the world by what you browse.”
“In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.”
“The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.”
“Technology has to be invented or adopted.”
“Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.”
“What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.”
“The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.”
“It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.”
“It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.”
“Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.”
“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”
“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”
“Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.”
“I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.”
“The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.”
“I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.”
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
“We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.”
“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.”
“The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”
“Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.”
“What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.”