Cynix.NET

Cynics / Zyniker

Cynic, n.: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Read more about Cynics at Wikipedia, which also has articles on Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken and Oscar Wilde. You can also search Google for cynic.

Kyniker: nach ihrem Versammlungsort, dem Gymnasion Kynosarges, benannte griechische Philosophenschule, gegründet von Antisthenes. Das Ideal der Bedürfnislosigkeit lebten die Kyniker bis zur Verachtung des Anstandes (danach Kynismus, Zynismus); darüber berichten Anekdoten.
dtv-Lexikon, 1997

Mehr über Kyniker bei PhilLex und bei der deutschen Version der Wikipedia: Kyniker. Suche bei Google nach Kyniker.

Favorite Quotes

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
-- Alan Kay, "Computer Software", in Scientific American, September 1984

Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
-- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996