Marc Andreesen (1971-now, entrepreneur)
"Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance." (AZQuotes.com)
Brian Behlendorf (1973-now, computer programmer)
"I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only use to a particular person or company..." (Brainyquote.com)
Jakob Böhme (1575-1624, philosopher)
"The perfect state, the summum bonum, is play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business." (AZQuotes.com)
Rob Brezsny (astrologer)
"Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysterious useful omen everyday of your life." (Paranoia is the Antidote for Paranoia, 2005)
Sergey Brin (1973-now, entrepreneur)
"Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems." (AZQuotes.com)
Jonathan Cainer (1957-2016, astrologer)
"In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow." (AZQuotes.com)
James Conant (1893-1978, chemist)
"Democracy is a small hard core of common agreements, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences." (AZQuotes.com)
Jeane Dixon (1904-1997, psychic)
"When a vision begins to form, everything changes, including the air around me... I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I'm seeing." (AZQuotes.com)
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994, philosopher)
"The fact of knowing how to read is knowing what to read." (AZQuotes.com)
David Filo (1966-now, entrepreneur)
"Thousands of people were producing new websites everyday. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it and make it useful." (AZQuotes.com)
David Frawley (1950-now, writer)
"The most important insights that have come to me usually occur while walking in nature, particularly hiking in the high mountains." (How I became a Hindu, 2000)
Max Heindel (1865-1919, astrologer)
"Peace is a matter of education and impossible of achievement until we have learned to deal charitably, justly and openly with one another, as nations as well as individuals." (Letters to Students: Letter No. 92, July 1918)
Robert Kahn (1938-now, electrical engineer)
"The internet is a microcosm of society." (AZQuotes.com)
Brian Kernighan (1942-now, computer scientist)
"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming." (Software Tools, 1976)
Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950, philosopher)
"We see what we see because we miss all the finer details." (AZQuotes.com)
Albertus Magnus (1200-1208, friar)
"Banish, therefore, from the heart the distractions of Earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys and thou mayest learn at least to repose in the light of the contemplation of God." (AZQuotes.com)
Matt Mullenweg (1984-now, entrepreneur)
"I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as the fifth estate." (AZQuotes.com)
Paul Otlet (1868-1944, bibliographer)
"From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate the whole of creation, in whole or certain parts." (AZQuotes.com)
Larry Page (1973-now, entrepreneur)
"People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that." (AZQuotes.com)
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935, writer)
"The superiority of a dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man." (The Book of Disquiet, 1982 posthumous)
Rob Pike (1956-now, computer programmer)
"Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming." (AZQuotes.com)
Israel Regardie (1907-1985, occultist)
"All that can be said with truth of this absolute and supreme reality is that it is. This must suffice." (The Tree of Life, 1972)
Blake Ross (1985, computer programmer)
"The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing unusable." (Wikiquote.org)
Guido van Rossum (1956-now, computer programmer)
"Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered." (AZQuotes.com)
Claude Shannon (1916-2001, computer scientist)
"The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message at another point." (The Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1962, co-author Warren Weaver)
R. U. Sirius (1952-now, writer)
"The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is." (The Revolution, 2000, co-author Andrei Codrescu)
Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956, artists)
"And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things." (AZQuotes.com)
Bjarne Stroustrup (1950-now, computer programmer)
"The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way to dealing with complexity: divide and conquer." (AZQuotes.com)
Ivan Sutherland (1938-now, computer scientist)
"It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple." (AZQuotes.com)
Andrew Tanenbaum (1944-now, computer programmer)
"Fight features... the only way to make software secure, reliable and fast is to make it small." (Some Notes on the 'Who Wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, 2004)
Kerry Thornley (1938-1998, writer)
"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos." (AZQuotes.com)
Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945-2002, writer)
"Chaos comes before all principles of order and entropy, it's neither a God nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass and define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers and phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds." (Tax: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, 2003)
Jerry Yang (1968-now, entrepreneur)
"Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform." (Brainyquote.com)
