LET’S AGREE TO DISAGREE — IT TAKES FEWER WORDS

“It’s a volatile issue and I think it will remain volatile but I do feel encouraged and I do think that if you sort of focus on the substance as opposed to emotion there’s a lot more agreement than there is a disagreement and I think the areas of disagreement should be resolvable.”

Ira Magaziner, President Clinton’s Internet czar, on the restless peons who oppose the U.S. government’s proposal for reforming the registration of domain names, The New York Times, 1 April 1998