With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.

Hyrum's Law - An observation on Software Engineering

(via Four Short Links)

From Ben Hammersley's speech to the Information Assurance Advisory Council:

[Moore's Law means] that anything that is dismissed on the grounds of the technology-not-being-good-enough-yet is going to happen.

It's a fantastic speech on pre and post Cold War generations, networks vs hierarchies, and the failure of governments to come to terms to what is happening in society. Highly recommended.