Wisdom in SpaceA composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules.
-- Frank Zappa
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
-- Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol)
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation.
-- Richard Feynman
If people are boasting that they use the best tools, you can figure that they can't find any competitive advantage to using those tools, or else they wouldn't be presenting them as a competitive advantage.
-- Dave Winer
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
-- Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media (1964))
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
-- Esther Dyson
Luck is the residue of design.
-- Branch Rickey