Latest Decryptions
"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."
"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."
"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface."
"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."
"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC."
"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
"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."
"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
"Technology has to be invented or adopted."
