"Those who love money are fierce in the pursuit of it., like wild animals pursuing their prey. They do not allow the ties of friendship to restrain them; they betray, cheat, or exploit their closest friends when there is gold or silver to be gained. Nor do they let the chains of conscience inhibit them; they learn to make their consciences as numb as fingers on a cold day." - A meditation from On Living Simply, drawn from the sermons of St. John Chrystostom, who lived in the 4th Century AD.
Source: Wealth Bondage: <http://www.wealthbondage.com/2003/06/25.html#a685>
"What you don’t understand, Lessig, is that your bullshit ‘open’ or ‘free’ types will never — NEVER — be able to compete with corporate organization. Squabbles-about-egos-pretending-to-be-about-the-merits can never be quashed. There is no one to say ‘enough, let’s move on.’ So every great idea that your type creates, we’ll just wait, watch, and then take. Always. Paraphrased from a conversation with someone from within one of the (how many are there?) largest proprietary code companies" - Lawrence Lessig
Source: Lessig Blog <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_06.shtml#001308>
"Linux is now the new VHS" - Jeff Gerhardt
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner." - William Gibson
Isaac Asimov . "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." [ Quotes of the Day ]
"What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Adolph Hitler [ Quotes of the Day ]