Toffler’s Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order. - John Brunner

Out of all the calls taken, nearly half — I think they say forty-five percent — are from people who are afraid someone else knows data that they don’t and is gaining an unfair advantage by it. For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it’s wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

I don’t usually talk much about this, Chester, because my grandfather dinned it into me as a child that it doesn’t make any difference who you’re descended from unless you can do something yourself to match what your ancestors did to gain their own notoriety.

intelligence and wisdom aren’t the same.