[ “I’ve managed to take the standard 20-30 hour installation
and bring it down to about 2-3 hours of time.” ]

[ “I hereby publicly accuse X-Windows of graphically castrating
UNIX software design from a usability standpoint.” ]

[ “Ubicomp is hard, understanding people, context, and the
world is hard, getting computers to handle everyday situations
is hard, and expectations are set way too high. I used to say
ubicomp was a ten-year problem; now I’m starting to think that
it’s really a hundred-year problem.” ]

[ “It’s as if a real world dating service not only matched you
up, but also insisted that you date at its restaurant, send
mail through its private service, and have sex at its motel.
ASN’s are like relationship theme parks.” ]

[ “Behind the scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and
joins the parallel computation of new sheep. Every fifteen
minutes 24/7 a new sheep is born and distributed to all clients
for display.” ]