Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

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

The future is a process, not a destination.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

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

The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.