John Perry Barlow

 Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. 

- John Perry Barlow

Georges Pompidou

 There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. 

- Georges Pompidou

Alfred North Whitehead

 Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. 

- Alfred North Whitehead

Clifford Stoll

 The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. 

- Clifford Stoll

John F. Kennedy

 The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. 

- John F. Kennedy

Stephen Hawking

 Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. 

- Stephen Hawking

Abraham Lincoln

 For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. 

- Abraham Lincoln

Walter Cronkite

 I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing. 

- Walter Cronkite

Yogi Berra

 Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. 

- Yogi Berra

Arthur Conan Doyle

 My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. 

- Arthur Conan Doyle

Lenny Bruce

 When you're eight years old nothing is your business. 

- Lenny Bruce

George Orwell

 Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. 

- George Orwell

Mark Twain

 The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.' 

- Mark Twain