I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
William Gibson

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Jaron Lanier

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.
Bruce Sterling

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
John Perry Barlow

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill

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.
Esther Dyson

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
William Gibson

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
Andy Grove

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Andy Grove

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard

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.
John Perry Barlow