Some Pithy One-Liners

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Posted-Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 00:04:09 -0400
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 22:59:14 -0500
From: shaynes () research westlaw com (Steve Haynes)
To: farber () central cis upenn edu
Subject: Some Pithy One-Liners


Dave -


> From the ASIS Midyear Meeting in Portland, Oregon, at the first
plenary session on May 23, some pithy one-liners from people all
IPers know or know of (my apologies if I've missed the exact
quotation; I tried as best I could to record accurately; I also
make no representation that the aphorisms are original with the
individuals cited).


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John Gage (Sun Microsystems):


        "Information is just bits, and bits penetrate all
        membranes."


        "Never drive in a city that fundamentally believes in
        reincarnation."


John Perry Barlow (EFF):


        "It is sufficient to predict the present."


        "Information, like wine, has traditionally been stored in
        bottles, and as soon as it is freed of those bottles we can
        examine what it really is."


        "We are going somewhere we cannot even take our bodies;
        going there, we should also not take our preconceived
        notions of property."


        "Cyberspace develops at a rate completely discontinuous with
        law; law develops at a rate second only to geology."


        "With introduction of the Internet, we will not have
        government as we have known it."


        "Information is alienated experience"  (Attrib?)


        "Start looking at the Internet as an ecology."


        "Carbon-based life is just a prosthesis for what really
        lives."


James Duderstadt (UofMich):


        "The driving economic force of the 21st century will be the
        act of creation itself."


John Seely Brown (Xerox PARC):


        "The oldest pathway for which the brain is hardwired is the
        narrative."


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