"Ninety percent of everything is crap" - sturgeon
"The Tivo is a wrapper around a bad interface" -- Bruce Sterling
The WWW is bloatware. Finding things is impossible because there's so much stuff out there. Think how much hard drive space is wasted on all kinds of web pages that only .00000000001% of the world ever reads. Since the vast majority of people only go to Yahoo, Ebay, and MSN, wouldn't the WWW be better if it only had Yahoo, Ebay, and MSN? It would be much more "optimized." - Joel Spolsky
"Let me be clear: Microsoft expects 802.11 and its supersets to be present in most places that people spend time. In corporate offices it will be pervasive. In campuses, hotels, convention centers, airports, shopping centers; virtually everywhere this 11 megabit and up capability will be there." - Bill Gates
"Yes, Microsoft twisted the market's Invisible Hand until all it could do was salute smartly in the direction of Redmond. But the market is still capable of containing Microsoft's hegemony. Just barely. Maybe. I am far more worried about the entertainment-legislative complex. Because the market has emphatically rejected its business model, it's perilously close to rewriting the software and hardware rules to force the market to comply. The government is both venal and stupid enough to do it." - David Weinberger
"Most people who tell you about the patent system have a stake in it, and so they want you to like it. But patents are like the lottery because they only rarely bring benefits to people. Lotteries invite you to think about winning, never about losing, and it is the same with the patenting system." - Richard M. Stallman
"A gored ox is a vigilant ox." - Jim Barksdale
"Software is like sex. You certainly can pay to watch actors, but some things are more fun to do for yourself."- Miguel de Icaza
"I'm wary of the trend toward things which can undermine the reliability and accuracy of Google." -- Seth David Schoen
"Join the Distributed Unisys Google Experiment. <a href="http://burnallgifs.org/">Unisys</a> everywhere." - Don Marti
"I only hope no one tries to call people who copy digital media "software terrorists." - Derek K. Miller
"It was naive to assume the Net would stay open. Nothing ever does. Thing have not been going well in that very large corporate interests, protecting business bodels, leveraging lobbying to pass legislation that is harmful and stupid." - Mitch Kapor
"The Hollings bill is a kind of a setback. It threatens what people on both sides have been trying to achieve.... People in the industry are not looking for the lock and key scenarios that the Hollings discussions raise." - Hillary Rosen
"The content industry is now Disney and Fox coming to Congress and saying 'you choose... you come up with a solution.' These guys think this is 'open source'." U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash)
"We also need the buggywhip protection act, mandating that no moving vehicle sold in the US not be equipped with a buggywhip. And the Railway Protection Act, mandating that no mass transportation ticket be sold that for a service that moves faster or less expensively than a train ride." - The Rev. A. K. M. Adam
"Imagine if radio came before telephony. People would be saying 'Who wants to talk personally? Broadcasting is everything!" - Bob Frankston
"Unlicensed spectrum is the best thing we've ever done." - FCC Chairman Michael Powell
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."- Douglas MacArthur