Thread by @arcalinea

I wrote down the stories told by old timers who had been doing stuff with computers for over 30 years at the #DWebCamp

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"There are different ways of looking at change in the world. We're biologically the same as we were 10,000 years ago. Maybe the only change we can make is through technology. Culture is changing, and that change might be caused by technology." - Mary Lou Jepson

"Shoot straight for your goal. Shoot for a big goal. Everyone can work along on it with you without working for you. Have a north star, one that isn't something you're going to achieve in your lifetime." - Brewster Kahle

"OK, you're in this situation where the communication has been cut, everything is going down, and you know you've either built a system that gets the news out and connects people or you haven't." - Danny O'Brien

Lee Felsenstein: "If politics is the art of the possible, who determines the possible?"

Bruce Baumgart: “We do (as technologists). Which is why we have the responsibility."

Lee: "In 1975 and 76 we were trying to overthrow the order of the technological priesthood... things don't go happily ever after necessarily."

Bruce: "You just get a different priesthood. But that's OK."