Dave Winer Quotations

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.

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.