SETI is a science, not a screensaver! - SETI.org site
The present invention relates to the creation and use of synthetic forms of existence, or androids, and more specifically relates to the development of a universal epistemological machine in which any forms of the universe, conventional technologies included, are represented, embodied and realized as eternal moments of an infinitely expanding continuum of enabled existential forms, as an alternative approach to resolving the problems of the human condition. - Patent No. 6,341,372 "Universal machine translator of arbitrary languages" January 22, 2002
With open mail relays, lists of 30 million email addresses, and a cable modem, it only takes a handful of professional spammers ... to deposit 10 or more daily pieces of spam into the mailbox of practically every frequent user of the net. - DSL Reports
Linux keeps me up at night in terms of the energy that IBM is putting on it. The thing that's a corollary to that--but much more important--is the intellectual issues associated with that, GPL in particular. I worry a lot because it goes to the heart of whether you can have a business selling software. Whether (or not) we're innovative keeps me up at night...The complexity, the legal restrictions keep me up at night. As to why I'm still here, I don't know. I do love technology. - Jim Allchin
I finally found a really interestying Linux-based alternative to Microsoft's tools and applications. But somehow I couldn't get excited about going after Microsoft's crown jewels. - Stewart Alsop, venture capitalist and Fortune columnist
Business revolutions happen whenever demand acquires the power to supply. - Doc Searls
If in the real world everybody is going to be famous for fifteen minutes, on the Web everybody gets to be famous for fifteen people. - David Weinberger
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. - John Keats
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In short, the Internet boom and bust was about America -- how it works and what it thought of itself in that short interregnum between the end of the cold war and September 2001. - John Cassidy
So now prosperity begins to mellow and drop into the rotten mouth of death. - Shakespeare