"Show me a web app that can't be served from a Pentium 100 and I'll show you a dead dot-com." - Kevin Jamieson
"If you want developers to invest alongside of you, if you want to be a platform vendor, and you want developers to invest along side of you, your platform neeeds to be open source. This in fact has been true for the last few years." - dave winer
"All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman (from the .sig of Alan Olson)
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Albert Einstein
"They're the next dead thing." - Grady Hannah of Linuxcare, on a company other than his own that he'd rather leave nameless
"The operating system wars are over, and operating systems lost. What we are now witnessing is the growth of environments where applications span multiple operating systems, rather than vice-versa. Individual computers are the new object, with a handful of exposed interfaces, and complicated internals hidden from the caller by standard protocols." - Clay Shirky
"The real problem we face with the Web is not understanding the anomalies, it’s facing how deeply weird the ordinary is." - David Weinberger
"This is an era when nonsense has become acceptable and sanity is controversial. Too many people fail to see a distinction between "the rule of law" and the edicts of judges. Unfortunately, these people include many judges." - Thomas Sowell, in 1996
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller
"Today we turn our dagger around and point it at ourselves. As goes the Internet Economy, so goes the magazine founded to cover it." Jimmy Guterman, uttering the parting words of Media Grok, the email newsletter of The Industry Standard on the day it went out of business.
"What lever did the invisible hand have to throw to start up the ghost in the machine?" - Christopher Locke