Overheard
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ~Bill Gates
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? ~Al Boliska
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ~Mitchell Kapor
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ~John Perry Barlow
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~Dave Barry
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. ~Larry Wall
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. ~Esther Dyson
I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ~Dan Millman
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. ~Scott Cook
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ~Andrew Brown
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. ~Cory Doctorow
My blog is a collection of answers people don’t want to hear to questions they didn’t ask. ~Sebastyne Young
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame. ~M.G. Sriram
If you have a web site, it makes your small business look big. ~Natalie Sequera
On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us. In real life we get really scared and run away. ~Author Unknown
The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source. ~Benjamin Franklin
A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it. ~Laura Ainsley, on over-zealous tweeting
A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. ~Robert Brault
The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost. ~Vic Sussman and Kenan Pollack
In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow
YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are merging. The new program will be called YouTwitFace. ~Author Unknown
What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? A URLologist. ~Author Unknown
