"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" - John Maynard Keynes
"The second oldest profession is bookkeeping." - Craig Burton
"We used the term open source not to piss off the FSF folks, but to claim a semantic space where we could talk about issues without scaring away the people who's beliefs we wanted to change." - Eric Raymond
"'Media relations' need to be outlawed in every country in the world. in the best case, media relations are incestous relationships between dimwitted first cousins, on the web it is one of the worst examples of inbreeding by the unholy alliance of ad agencies and pixel mechanics of dubious talent." - The Head Lemur
"Being afraid of monolithic organizations, ecpecially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire." - Bruce Sterling
"I’d doubt that it represents a threat to anything but the notion that you can sell bad code by refusing to let anyone see what’s in the box." - Amy Wohl on Linux and open source
"The personal communications industry started with the first portable cellular call 28 years ago." Martin Cooper
"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former." - Karl Kraus
"At the close of the first day the cash drawer revealed a total of $24.67. Of this sum, $24 was spent for advertising and 67 cents saved for making change next morning." - John Wanamaker, after opening what was to become the world's first department store, in Philadelphia, 1861.
Is the Internet world better? Well, Internet has its share of acronyms and techno-babble. But because the Internet is an open platform, because it's free from the monopoly legacy, the entrepreneurs who ply the Internet have the freedom to focus on the real problems, to create and search out markets and then to make those markets work. And, of course, they have the freedom to go out of business when the businesses and markets don't work as they hoped and expected. That's how free enterprise works and that's the real secret behind the success of the Internet. - Martin Cooper
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. -Jane Hopkins