UC Santa Barbara
Walter Isaacson
The Innovators
Page 248
"Defense Department money was not flowing freely to costly programs designed to allow collaboration among academic researchers."
Page 249
"He [Steven Cocker] never considered nuclear survival to be part of his mission. Yet when Lukasik sent around his 2011 paper, Cocker read smiled, and revised his thinking. "I was on top and you were on the bottom,so you really had no idea of what was going on and why we were doing it," Lukasik told him. To which Cocker replied with a dab of humor masking a dollop of wisdom, "I was on the bottom and you were on the top, so you had no idea of what was going on or what we were doing."
Page 251
"Janet Abbate noted ... the group that designed and built ARPA's networks was dominated by academic scientists, who incorporated their own values of collegiality, decentralization of authority, and open exchange of information into the system." These academic researchers of the late 1960's, many of whom associated with the antiwar counterculture, created a system that resisted centralized command. It would route around any damage from a nuclear attack but also around any attempt to impose control."
Page 260
"The Internet was built partly by the government and partly by private firms, but mostly it was the creation of a loosely knit cohort of academics and hackers who worked as peers and freely shared their creative ideas. The result of such peer sharing was a network that facilitated peer sharing. This was not mere happenstance. The Internet was built with the belief that that power should be distributed rather than centralized and that any authoritarian diktats should be circumvented."
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"I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans
I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to CreateWilliam Blake" 
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