Don't be evil (TM)?

"Google is not building a library, it is building a bookstore"
-- Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor, University of Virginia. "Google Books' Latest Foe: The Justice Dept.," BusinessWeek, September 20, 2009.

It's all in the semantics

The word semantics is used by different groups to mean different things.
-- Tim Berners-Lee on Semantic Web. "Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee," BusinessWeek.com, April 9, 2007. Hopefully Semantic Web itself could unlock its own meaning...

Elitist?

The computer, Postscript, the Internet and "globalization" have unleashed a couple of cultural revolutions which also churned the understanding of writing in a mess. A clear lake was transformed into a muddy marsh landscape. All the old rules and values are jeopardized, being replaced with many contradictory new ones. Non-professionals are allowed to make typography - it's the end of knowledge in the hands of a few: a lot of people who have always been reading, but hardly writing, discovered a cultural asset - design, like with silverware or chairs.
-- Manfred Klein, "Manfred Klein - the interview" (This article is a translation from the original piece in German)

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