William Gibson

"The computer is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated."

Alan Kay

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."

Douglas Engelbart

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

Bill Gates

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."

William Gibson

"The internet is a great way to get on the net."

Bob Dole

"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."

Clifford Stoll

"The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it."

John Evans

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."

Jim Clark

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

Andrew Brown

"The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting."

Dave Barry

"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."

John Perry Barlow

"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."

Linus Torvalds

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday."

Dennis Gabor

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

Edward R. Murrow

"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."

Scott McNealy

"The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited."

Alan Kay

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

B. F. Skinner

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."

John Spencer

"The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster."

Adam Smith

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station."

William Gibson

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."

E. F. Schumacher

"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

Oscar Wilde

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

John F. Kennedy