Consider your newspaper. The advertisements are the land. The stories are the Dead Sea, slowly evaporating. Beneath the surface, the advertisements form an unbroken Continental Shelf. Here and there a ridge of PR crops through the shallow surface. Soon salt and sand will blow across a desert. - Wealth Bondage
Listen attentively, and above all, remember that true tales are meant to betransmitted. To keep them to oneself is to betray them. - Elie Wiesel
The motivation for this counterrevolution is as old as revolutions themselves. As Niccolò Machiavelli described long before the Internet, "Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new." And so it is today with us. Those who prospered under the old regime are threatened by the Internet. Those who would prosper under the new regime have not risen to defend it against the old; whether they will is still a question. So far, it appears they will not. - Lawrence Lessig
Our terrorists wear suits and have law degrees. Their involvement in software design, at a very intimate level, will result in orphaned software, bankruptcies, and users without tools to use. Movement stops -- who knows how a creative lawyer will be able to maneuver a broad patent to cover something truly new and innovative. Sometimes the innovation is in cooperation. - Dave Winer
We were born naked, wet and hungry. Then things got worse. - Simon Fraser
There isn't much value in free. - Doug Miller, group product manager for competitive strategies at Microsoft
The reason that we have not seen a real Linux virus epidemic in the wild is simply that none of the existing Linux viruses can thrive in the hostile environment that Linux provides. The Linux viruses that exist today are nothing more than technical curiosities; the reality is that there is no viable Linux virus. - Ray Yeargin
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity; "what everyone knows" is the line between us and them. - Lawrence Lessig
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. - Abraham Lincoln
Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them. - Joel Spolksy
Never threaten a writer... We can immortalize you in ways you might not find pleasant. - Garrison Keillor