"Everybody in Mali uses Linux." That is no doubt a bit of an exaggeration, but it's a phrase that you'd hear only in a flat world. — Tom Friedman, in The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century.

A telemedicine centre was installed in Segou and Sikasso, regional capitals of Mali, to improve the ability of these medical centres to both communicate and provide quality medical information. These systems are also being used for "tele-radiology", where these centres can scan an x-ray, then transmit it to specialists in Europe or the United States for a second opinion. - Geekcorps Mali

Source: http://mali.geekcorps.org/article.php3?id_article=52

The capability of computers keeps growing and the number of applications running keeps increasing. The people building the interface keep growing the complexity of that. It's not for lack of effort but the software people are losing ground. - Gordon Moore

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1264

Scale doesn't scale anymore. — Jeff Jarvis

http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2005_04_12.html#009447

The promise of open source is to eliminate the choice of products and increase the choice of vendors. Examples: Red Hat, CentOS, Lineox, Tao Linux, Progeny, SuSE, Mandrake, Conectiva, Ubuntu (Canonical), Xandros, Lycoris, Knoppix, Debian. This is the paradox of open source. - Røml Lefkowitz

(from a presentation at the Open Source Business Summit)