It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner
Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.
Life is not a tour of gas stations.
There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best.
A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.
Data is the next Intel Inside.
No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.
Architecture trumps licensing any time.
You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.
Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
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