The quotes on this Web site come from a variety of sources, some of them from books I've read, some from Web sites, and at least one from a CD. Here's a rundown on the people.
- Tim Berners-Lee - the "inventor" of the World Wide Web, HTML, and HTTP.
- Owen Briggs - Web designer, information architect, and CSS design guru. One of the authors of Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation.
- Steven Champeon - Web developer, Chief Technical Officer of Hesketh.com, also an author of Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation.
- Charlie Chaplin - Silent film comedian
- Curt Cloninger - Web designer; author of Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground
- The Cluetrain Manifesto - both a Web site and a book containing incendiary statements about the nature of e-commerce
- Sean Connery - the actor, you know, James Bond and all.
- Steve Earle - veteran Texas singer/songwriter and probably my favorite musician.
- Anatole France - French novelist and short story writer
- Benjamin Franklin - my favorite "founding father"
- R. Buckminster Fuller - inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist.
- Jessica Helfand - Graphic designer and design theorist. On the faculty at Yale.
- T.H. Huxley - Biologist, teacher, defender of Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution in Victorian England.
- Steven Johnson - Media theorist; author of Interface Culture.
- Christopher Locke - Web iconoclast, AKA "Rageboy." One of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto.
- Groucho Marx - My favorite Marx Brother
- Terence McKenna - researcher specializing in Shamanism and psychedelia
- Mitch Ratcliffe - one of the owners of Internet/Media Strategies, Inc.
- Jeffrey Veen - Web designer and guru; author of the excellent Art and Science of Web Design.
- David Weinberger - NPR Web commentator, one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto.
- Richard Saul Wurman - Originator of the phrase "information architect"; author of Information Anxiety and Understanding USA