The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

- Andrew Brown

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

- Erwin Chargaff, Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University. Columbia Forum, Summer 1969

Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.

- New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative by Paul Goodman, 1970.

A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn.

- Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by Dave Barry, 2001.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance-the idea that anything is possible.

- Ray Bradbury, science fiction author. LA Times, August 9, 1976

What we're experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.

- "The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains" by Nicholas Carr, May 24, 2010.

The Borg: Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile.We wish to improve
ourselves.We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to
our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours.
-Michael Piller, ‘‘The Best of BothWorlds’’ Part 1, episode of
Star Trek: The Next Generation, July 1, 1990