"Video games like Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct and Doom, the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence."
- US president Bill Clinton in his weekly address in the aftermath of the Littleton massacre.
"If we continue to grow our user rate at the level we've been doing now, we'd get six doubling periods, which means just shy of a billion people, 860 million in fact. I'm not expecting it to be quite that high because trends like this tend to show logistic growth rather than exponential, and it's not clear what the threshold is. I'd say somewhere near 750 million would be a good conservative estimate."
- Eric S. Raymond, freelance programmer and Linux evangelist predicting a rosy future for Linux.
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