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Some Pithy One-Liners
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 05:15:49 -0400
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). -------------------------------------------- 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." 2000
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