Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner All Tech Considered: 2009 "You, as an end user, will not know whether an application is native or Web based. You will not be able to see it, just like you are not able to see whether it [a native PC application] is written in C++, Pascal or Basic. That is the direction things ..."
Stephen Hawking British Telecom advertisement: 1993 "Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn''''t have to be li..."
Julia Angwin Facebook: Can It Be Tamed?: 2009 "In theory, I [am] in favor of fresh content and more control. But, in practice, it turns out that I''m not that good at doing the filtering myself. This is one of the central conundrums of the digital age. The endless access to information on the I..."
Tim Berners-Lee TED Conference: 2009 "It’s not just about the number of places where data comes [from]; it’s about connecting it together. When you connect data together, you get power in a way that doesn’t happen just with the Web, with documents."
Barbara Liskov CIPS Connections: 2009 "Computation is everywhere. One of the things I have seen over my career is a real change in the way that computer scientists are viewed by scientists. Once upon a time--and this is not that long ago--people in the sciences thought of computer people ..."
Stephen Baker The Numerati: 2009 "We now have experts who are comfortable working with ridiculously large numbers, the billions and trillions that the rest of us find either unimaginable or irrelevant. They are heirs to the science that turns our everyday realities into symbols. As t..."
Sam Anderson New Lit Boy: Tao Lin: 2009 "Lin belongs to the first generation of writers to come of age entirely under the backlit glow of the Internetfor whom it wasn”t a novelty but a fully developed system, a lifestyle. He”s fluent in all its self-promotional tools: eBay, You Tube, MySpa..."
Craig Newmark Craigslists unorthodox path: 2008 "Death is my exit strategy. . . . I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live. After that, it's over . . . or is it?"
Jhonatan Rotberg Upwardly Mobile: 2008 "For the first time in history, information is no longer the exclusive domain of the powerful and the rich. The ubiquity of mobile devices is changing the political and economic dynamics around the world."
Frank Herbert Dune: 1965 "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
