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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.
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one read more
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a read more
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten read more
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.
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed read more
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.
The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.
The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the read more
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one read more
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.