To go faster you must slow down.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.