Birth: June 6, 1954
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules fo….
My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going..
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done..
The future is always scary to those who cling to the past..
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software..
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started..
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how ….
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration..
Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong..
Create more value than you capture..
A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books..
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large….
Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or ….
Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other a….
In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with..
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered ….
There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of option….
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations..
Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy..
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity..
Who has the data has the power..