“You gotta put something at the center, and they’ve got a big rock, left over from pre-Muslim days. That’s why they go.”
Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, comparing his desert arts-and-drugs festival to a major world religion, Wired News, 2 September 2005
“There’s nary a gay bloke I’ve met who doesn’t read dozens of blogs.”
David Hauslaib, on launching a frequently updated website for homosexualists, Wired News, 1 September 2005
“It’s not us saving people. It’s us getting the technology to the people who will use it to save people.”
University of South Florida professor Robin Murphy, on why New Orleans really needs robots right now, MSNBC.com, 30 August 2005
“I would certainly not characterize WinFS as being ahead of schedule.”
Microsoft employee Quentin Clark, on the new file system’s sudden appearance in beta, News.com, 29 August 2005
“It is a harbinger of the greater sensitivity we need to show in the future as we take more seriously the psychological importance of our digital lives.”
MIT professor Sherry Turkle, on the incipient tragedy of Flickr’s integration into new owner Yahoo’s network, Wired News, 29 August 2005
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