Dave Winer Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#14. There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

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#15. OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.

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