It’s a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short term, but underestimate its significance in the longer term.

– Larry Page, announcing Google closing the acquisition of Motorola

those who don’t design for readers might soon not be designing for anyone

– Jeffrey Zeldman, in his Web Design Manifesto 2012

Internet use would only be a worry if it was getting in the way of us practicing some other life skill.

– Tom Stafford, in his BBC Future column discussing if the internet rewires our brain