Henry David Thoreau

"Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people."

Stewart Alsop

"Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition."

Orrin Hatch

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."

Linus Torvalds

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

Penn Jillett

"One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?"

John Perry Barlow

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

Elbert Hubbard

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools."

Marshall McLuhan

"Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge."

John Perry Barlow

"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans."

Ralph Nader

"Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea."

Lawrence Clark Powell

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."

Larry Wall

"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."

John Perry Barlow

"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."

Tim Berners-Lee

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation."

Jean Arp

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."

Clifford Stoll

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."

Jaron Lanier

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

Aldous Huxley

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

Freeman Dyson

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

Max Frisch

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

Carrie P. Snow

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."

Ambrose Bierce

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

William Gibson

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Kay