Technology(116)

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."
Jim Allchin

"Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people."
Stewart Alsop

"Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal."
Stewart Alsop

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation."
Jean Arp

"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
John Perry Barlow

"One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?"
John Perry Barlow

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

"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

"You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions."
John Perry Barlow

"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."
John Perry Barlow