Joel Spolsky Advice for Computer Science College Students: 2005 "The difference between tolerable programmer[s] and great programmer[s] is not how many programming languages they know. [...] It’s whether they can communicate their ideas. By persuading other people, they get leverage. By writing clear comment..."
Ken Auletta Publish or perish: Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?: 2010 "No matter where consumers buy books, their belief that electronic media should cost less--that something you can’t hold simply isn’t worth as much money--will exert a powerful force."
Robin Milner From a speech given by Robin Milner, on receiving an honorary degree from the University of Bologna in 1997, http://www.cs.unibo.it/icalp/Lauree_milner.html.: 1997 "Every tool designed by man is a prosthetic device, and for every prosthetic device there is a means of control. Many tools are physical, and their control is manual. In contrast, computers are the most complex tools ever invented, and they are tools ..."
Jaron Lanier You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto: 2010 "The central faith of the Web's early design has been superseded by a different faith in the centrality of imaginary entities epitomized by the idea that the Internet as a whole is coming alive and turning into a superhuman creature."
Craig Mundie The Way Forward: 2009 "As computing becomes exponentially more powerful, it will ... enable more natural interactions with scientists. Systems that are able to understand and have far greater contextual awareness will provide a level of proactive assistance that was previo..."
Evan Ratliff Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Heres What Happened: 2009 "People fret about privacy, but what are the consequences of giving it all up? ... What can investigators glean from all the digital fingerprints we leave behind? You can be anybody you want online, sure, but can you reinvent yourself in real life?"
Robert. D. Putnam Bowling Alone: 2000 "Social connections are ... important for the rules of conduct that they sustain. Networks involve (almost by definition) mutual obligations; they are not interesting as mere "contacts.""
Ed Felten Sidekick Users' Data Lost: Blame the Cloud?: 2009 "This risk, of buggy software corrupting data, has always been with us. The question is not whether problems will happen in the cloud--in any complex technology, trouble comes with the territory--but whether the cloud makes a problem worse."
