R. Buckminster Fuller

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."

Jim Allchin

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

John F. Kennedy

"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."

William Gibson

"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface."

Jaron Lanier

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

Stephen Hawking

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."

Bruce Sterling

"I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world."

Walter Mossberg

"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity."

Brian Eno

"I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, How do you know what the future is going to be like? And I'd always say, I don't."

William Gibson

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

Omar N. Bradley

"If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener."

Walter Mossberg

"In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance."

John Perry Barlow

"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."

Grace Murray Hopper

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

Ambrose Bierce

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

Albert Einstein

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."

Clive James

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

John Stuart Mill

"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."

Esther Dyson

"It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy."

Jack Welch

"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."

William Gibson

"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC."

Andy Grove

"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster."

Andy Grove