In no particular order, and attributed to no particular person:

Interactive is only really fast batch.

Does that make RESTful just very fast messsages?

The Heraclitean nightmare of never stepping into the same runtime environment twice.

[The] glory of standards is between you and your Maker.

The only reason for a corporation to participate in standards work is that it doesn't already control the market.

What is a community that is not us?

You can't make any progress by being afraid of your shadow during design.

What part of "I just want to type my letter" do you not understand?

With XML, one can no longer be certain that a bureaucrat's behind is 8 1/2 x 11.

I'll take the look on your face as sufficient answer to that question.

Some things don't version. Michelangelo's David 1.6.1.

You are more post-Modern than you think.

Some of this could actually be implemented.

Anything over 50% is all the time.

The spirit of namespaces is to make things complicated.

XML has started the Enlightenment of IT -- taking IT out of the hands of priests.

Versions happen!

Versioning is a manifestation problem.

UPDATE

Permanent beta.

We don't need to stinkin' overlap.

Great system. But will it work in theory?

You can't say anything without it being taken out of context.

Nothing abstract can change.

Knowing what we know now, that's what they should have done then.

I am not my address, I am here.

Q: How much longer do I have?

A: About 12 minutes, but I need 10 of them to heckle you.

Versions expand to fill the versioning systems available.

[It] takes longer to get a process for testing spaghetti if you also have to invent spaghetti.

With a human in the box, it does not work.

Namespaces are evil.

XML makes all of the lies we told about SGML into truths about XML.

The difference between "is" and "was" is a scoping issue.

UPDATE.

Lots of gently rotting C code.

Text is not a corner case.

Intelligence is a textual application.

Semantics is a cover term for ignorance.