"We know what we are, but we know not what we may become"
-William Shakespeare

"What a man says has meaning, son. Gotta choose your words careful. Don't pay to plant them if the seed ain't there, or the ground is like to be barren."
-Sippican Cottage

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
-Marilyn Monroe

"The aim of software is, in a sense, to create an alternative reality. After all, when you use your cell phone, you simply want to push the fewest buttons possible and call, text, purchase, listen, download, e-mail, or browse. The power we all hold in our hands is shocking, yet it’s controlled by a few swipes of a finger. The drive to simplify the user’s contact with the machine has an inherent side effect of disguising the complexity of a given task."
-Michael Osinski

"I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality ---> immortal mistakes."
-Esther Dyson

"This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse."
-Julian Simon