Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G- ???

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.