"The Internet has come to resemble an enormous used book store with volumes stacked on shelves and tables and overflowing onto the floor, and a continuous stream of new books being added helter-skelter to the piles." (Robert R Pool, Science, 1994)
"Developments on the Internet over the next several years will set the course of our industry for a long time to come." (Bill Gates, "Internet Tidal Wave", [Microsoft internal memo], 1995)
"It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an information highway, but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies." (Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, 1996)
"The Internet is an elite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call." (Noam Chomsky, The Observer, 1996)
"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." (Eric Schmidt, [Speech at Netscape Communications Developers' conference], 1996)
"Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar." (George D Lundberg, "Alternative Medicine Online", 1997)
"The internet model has many lessons for the new economy but perhaps the most important is its embrace of dumb swarm power. The aim of swarm power is superior performance in a turbulent environment. When things happen fast and furious, they tend to route around central control. By interlinking many simple parts into a loose confederation, control devolves from the center to the lowest or outermost points, which collectively keep things on course. A successful system, though, requires more than simply relinquishing control completely to the networked mob."
"The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path." (Seth Godin, "Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers", 1999)
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