Technology Quotes
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet. If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. Men have become the tools of their tools. Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
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