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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate read more
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
