A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the read more

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things read more

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of read more

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the read more

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form read more

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. read more

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.