Sublime

Such developments depend on the modern view that knowledge and information is sets of layered patterns in our computers and in our brains.

This book is a belated answer to Tom Watson's probing questions as to why programming is hard to manage.

Robert Wright predicted one of its most important consequences. In his essay “Voice of America,” which appeared in the September 13, 1993, issue of the magazine the New Republic, Wright reported on his forays into Usenet, a set of online discussion groups

The good news is that the Information Revolution will liberate individuals as never before. For the first time, those who can educate and motivate themselves will be almost entirely free to invent their own work and realize the full benefits of their own productivity.

The evolution of complex systems from simple elements implies nothing, one way or the other, about the change in entropy of the entire system.

In the Information Age, a “job” will be a task to do, not a position you “have.” Microprocessing has created entirely new horizons of economic activity that transcend territorial boundaries.

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.