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Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

• Alan Kay

Sometimes resources are wasted just because their abundance eliminates worries about even the most ridiculous overuse.

• viznut, Maximalism and Virtualism

Given my personality, ego-death is probably far beyond my reach. Brain injury would have to suffice.

• Kate Wagner, the hairshirt doldrums

"It wouldn't take millions of dollars. I estimate something like a three- to six-man, monthlong effort." I instinctively factored this prediction in my head, because I recognized the code in which the Xanadu programmers speak of the future: six months.

• Gary Wolf, The Curse of Xanadu

We let ourselves be part of something so monstrous that our great grandchildren will curse our names for having been part of it.

• @mos_8502@studio8502.ca

Law's all right so long as big interests aren't disturbed.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia

The magnet which attracts corruptors, the natural locus of corruption, is always where the discretionary power resides.

• Edward N. Costikyan

The more finished goods become commodities, the fewer opportunities an individual has to generate new creation. The ability to mass-produce removes the opportunity for the great many to learn to produce at all. From such a thought, a future full of consumption-only hobbies might come as no surprise.

• Simon Sarris, That which is unique, breaks

Law? What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

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