Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.