Dave Winer Quotations

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.

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.

Microsoft is talking about getting in the loop on the Web, and they're feeding the story to print people? Surely there was one person inside Microsoft who felt that it was just a bit too ironic to try to get the new message out through the old guys.

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles,

Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.

To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.

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.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.

If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

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.

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

Actually, I would have liked to sell sooner. Keeping the site running was a perpetual challenge. We would scale and it would just grow exponentially.

A quite simple, but powerful technology that empowers individuals to keep control over and manage their digital identities.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

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 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.

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.