April 8, 1974

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"

- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, in People magazine, April 8,  1974.

2003

"My reasons for putting Linux out there were pretty selfish. I didn't want the headache of trying to deal with parts of the operating system that I saw as the crap work. I wanted help."

- Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux) in an interview with Wired,
"Wired 11.11: Leader of the Free World" by Gary Rivlin, November 2003.

Memorable Interview: Kevin Mitnick

"You can have the best computer set-up in the world but, if someone can convince a member of staff to let them in, all that is useless. The weakest link in any security chain is always human."
- Kevin Mitnick in "The hacker's tale: an interview with Kevin Mitnick"
An interview with the Financial Times
Published October 26, 2002

October 6, 1997

"I'd shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders."

- Michael S. Dell, CEO of Dell Computer, in response to being asked at a Gartner Group symposium what he would do if he woke up in the body of Steve Jobs.

October 1, 2002

"You can't stop technology. Even if they succeed in shutting down those particular services, new services will spring  up.  It's the nature of the Internet."

- Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

"Napster creator ponders his legacy" by Nick Wingfield, October 1, 2002.

September 11, 1773

"There never was a good war or bad peace."

- Benjamin Franklin

July 10, 1997

"Steve Jobs is not a credible CEO or anything else for Apple. The worst thing would be to appoint Steve CEO, except that it would give Steve the opportunity to preside over both Apple's birth and death."

- David Coursey (Industry commentator) in the San Jose Mercury News, July 10, 1997.