Let’s suppose that back in the 1980s I had said, “In a quarter century, when the digital revolution has made great progress and computer chips are millions of times faster than they are now, humanity will finally win the prize of being able to write a new encyclopedia [Wikipedia] and a new version of UNIX!” It would have sounded utterly pathetic.
— Lanier, Jaron (2009-12-02). You Are Not a Gadget (Vintage) (pp. 121-122). Vintage. Kindle Edition.
