The perfect network
is perfectly plain, and perfectly extensible. That means it is also
the perfect capital repellant, [which] implies a guaranteed loss to
network operators, but a boon to the services on the 'ends.'
-- Roxane Googin High Tech Observer
September 2001. quoted in "The Paradox of the Best Network"
by David Isenberg and David Weinberger.
http://www.netparadox.com/