The core fallacy of the idea of progress is the notion that it is possible to optimize everything at once. -- Philip Slater

Source: http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/2005-August/001503.html

Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Hoare's Dictum, by Tony Hoare

Source, http://jeff-kubina.blogspot.com/2006/03/etech-2006-session-scaling-fast-and.html

I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby

Source: http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/2005-August/001503.html

In short order, the $100 Laptop will debut in the developing world - running on the aforementioned free operating system, Linux. WiMaxx networks will blanket this world, just as cell networks now blanket Kenya and other parts of Africa. (Almost everyone I run across in Kenya has a cell phone - including people who live in Kibera, the largest slum in East Africa.) The developing world will be connected at a level unimaginable two years ago. Millions of new voices will join the conversation. Issues and problems will be revealed, discussed and solved in those very conversations.

Governments will fall, corruption be revealed, new ideas explode and lives be radically changed as the Generous Web weaves its magic throughout the planet.

- Bill Kinnon

Source: http://www.kinnon.tv/2006/06/the_globalimpac.html

"If you repeal the DMCA and the EUCD, makers of competing MP3 players will reverse-engineer FairPlay and add the capability to play iTunes songs. No further government oversight will be required. But if you pass additional regulations, we'll have to come back in another decade to figure out how to deal with the unintended consequences of those regulations." - Tim Lee

Source: http://www.techliberation.com/archives/039480.php