Fashionable Science

"The fact is science is like any other social network. It's a lot easier to go along with the crowd. Every now and then there's a revolution in science, a paradigm shift, like when Einstein came along, but it's so easy to lock people into a particular way of thinking, of trying to build on the ideas that are in vogue. In the end, there is almost a fashion in science — ideas that are in, ideas that are out."
-- Brian Clegg, "What Came Before the Big Bang?," TIME.com, August 13, 2009.

Music to my ears

Technology is like a piano. You need to have it to create music but you really need the pianist.
-- Yossi Vardi, a well-known Israel's technology investor. "A Conversation with Yossi Vardi," BusinessWeek, January 2, 2008.

People is an important part of the equation

"Communication between people is what makes us a society... The World Wide Web is, together, technology and society. It is computers and people."
-- Tim Berners-Lee. "Sir Tim Berners-Lee Gives Congress Vision Of The Future", Embedded.com, Jan 3, 2007