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Copyright 2007 Glen Ellyn Media	What's New: Favorite Quotes On Writing Electronic communications will be just as important for the 21st century as railroads were for the past century. - Esther Dyson [On working at home] The worst that’s likely to happen is that, being alone all day, you might find yourself riding weird trains of thought. - Dave Barry The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream it along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. This is the illusion of aliveness. - Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried I don’t know how other writers feel, but I’d rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in someone else’s. - Peter Mayle …It doesn’t just come down to what body parts are ripped out. I would argue, actually, that what made Mortal Kombat successful was not the violence but the character development in the game. - Strauss Zelnick, CEO of a software game company On Technology The Internet is the Gutenberg press on steroids. Gutenberg wasn’t about how many Bibles were printed, but the fact that you no longer had to listen to the clerics. You could read it yourself and make your own interpretation. - Watts Wacker, consultant and futurist Never underestimate the power of a lot of stupid people working in the same company. - Computer industry analyst Karen Boucher Technology will definitely solve all or problems, but in the process it will create brand-new ones. But that’s okay, because the most you can expect out of life is to get to solve better and better problems. - Scott Adams, Dilbert creator The medium is meaningless, the message is the thing. - Nathan Winstanley, Lenox Softworks Trying to understand what’s happening using old words, old images, old paradigms is like telling time by broken clocks. The landscape created by speech, writing, print is being terraformed [!] by digital humans, rocking in our boots, out of joint with our times. - Richard Thieme, in the electronic newsletter Islands in the Clickstream From the Past I believe the sheer impact of this revolution will rival that of the electric light, the telephone, or perhaps printing itself. We won’t just talk or shop on the information superhighway; we will live on it. In 20 years, our world will be so transformed by this highway that people will scarcely be able to remember what life was like before it… - Larry Ellison, Oracle, in Communications Industry Report, 4/94 You don’t have to oppose digital technology to be trampled; innocent bystanders will be flattened, too. - John R. Walter, AT&T, in the New York Times, 1997 Industry visionaries are casting about for the next big thing. Only two conclusions seem solid. First, no single company can pull it off. Second, the next big thing will somehow make use of voice, video, and data. Other than that, little is certain. - James F. Moore, GeoPartners Research, 11/93 Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine. - Rex Lambert, editor of Radio Times, 1936 .Back

What's New: Favorite Quotes

On Writing

Electronic communications will be just as important for the 21st century as railroads were for the past century. - Esther Dyson

[On working at home] The worst that’s likely to happen is that, being alone all day, you might find yourself riding weird trains of thought. - Dave Barry

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream it along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. This is the illusion of aliveness.
- Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried

I don’t know how other writers feel, but I’d rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in someone else’s. - Peter Mayle

…It doesn’t just come down to what body parts are ripped out. I would argue, actually, that what made Mortal Kombat successful was not the violence but the character development in the game. - Strauss Zelnick, CEO of a software game company

On Technology

The Internet is the Gutenberg press on steroids. Gutenberg wasn’t about how many Bibles were printed, but the fact that you no longer had to listen to the clerics. You could read it yourself and make your own interpretation. - Watts Wacker, consultant and futurist

Never underestimate the power of a lot of stupid people working in the same company. - Computer industry analyst Karen Boucher

Technology will definitely solve all or problems, but in the process it will create brand-new ones. But that’s okay, because the most you can expect out of life is to get to solve better and better problems. - Scott Adams, Dilbert creator

The medium is meaningless, the message is the thing. - Nathan Winstanley, Lenox Softworks

Trying to understand what’s happening using old words, old images, old paradigms is like telling time by broken clocks. The landscape created by speech, writing, print is being terraformed [!] by digital humans, rocking in our boots, out of joint with our times. - Richard Thieme, in the electronic newsletter Islands in the Clickstream

From the Past

I believe the sheer impact of this revolution will rival that of the electric light, the telephone, or perhaps printing itself. We won’t just talk or shop on the information superhighway; we will live on it. In 20 years, our world will be so transformed by this highway that people will scarcely be able to remember what life was like before it… - Larry Ellison, Oracle, in Communications Industry Report, 4/94

You don’t have to oppose digital technology to be trampled; innocent bystanders will be flattened, too. - John R. Walter, AT&T, in the New York Times, 1997

Industry visionaries are casting about for the next big thing. Only two conclusions seem solid. First, no single company can pull it off. Second, the next big thing will somehow make use of voice, video, and data. Other than that, little is certain. - James F. Moore, GeoPartners Research, 11/93

Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine. - Rex Lambert, editor of Radio Times, 1936

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