Marc Andreessen (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 useful 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)
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)
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)
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)
Blake Ross (1985, computer programmer)
"The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable." (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)
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)
