Internet quotes

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

- Bill (William Henry III) Gates
  Business@the Speed of  Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

- Bill (William Henry III) Gates
  Business@the Speed of  Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

   The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning† The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

-James Gleick
  In the NewYork Times Magazine,1 May.

   There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the internet, we now know this isn't true.

- Ian Hart
In the Sunday Herald, 30 Dec.