Dave Winer
You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
Write the first draft. Boldface the bits you want to emphasize. Delete all the unboldened stuff. Delete the boldening.
When you hear "ecosystem" instead say "egosystem" and see if it still works.
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Over the weekend I exchanged email with a Unix guy who chastised me for being "insular" and proposed to tell me how to speak to Unix people with proper humility. Well, I only pray to one God in relation to computers, and His name is Murphy.
One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.
OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
Note that no one asked Mike if his code was open source or if his underwear is clean.
I was once quoted in Upside, saying that General Magic's MagicCap OS was like a waitress who made her personality the issue instead of the food. The metaphor was actually a bit more colorful.
I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.
I don't want to say these things. That's why I'm saying them. You may not want to hear them. That's why you should hear them.
Either we'll succeed and have a well-financed development and operations company, or we'll put Frontier in mothballs, and revisit it next year. So the stakes are high for us.
Christmas parties for the last few years have been all about, "Oh, we're about to do our IPO" or "Oh, the greatest thing is, we're pre-IPO." That's wishful thinking. Maybe they've never heard of Murphy's law. It's boring. Money is boring.
Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
A quite simple, but powerful technology that empowers individuals to keep control over and manage their digital identities.