Winer Quotes

#1. For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

Jason Calacanis

#2. Ever since we were expelled from paradise, we have either been suffering, making other people suffer or watching the suffering of others

Paulo Coelho

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

Dave Winer

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

Dave Winer

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

Dave Winer

#6. I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.

Jason Winer

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

Dave Winer

#8. There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they
have no money, no longer because there is no food to buy ... we strongly
resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European
public.

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

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

Dave Winer

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

Dave Winer

#11. I think back to the Modern Family pilot when we didn't know that Julie Bowen had a spotty party girl past, but that's something that we layered in, throughout the first season. That's just part of the fun of series television. You get to discover these things.

Jason Winer

#12. This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.

John Muir

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

Dave Winer

#14. You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

Jason Winer

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

Dave Winer

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

Dave Winer

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

Dave Winer

#18. 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.

Dave Winer

#19. I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

Jason Winer

#20. 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.

Dave Winer

#21. A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#22. I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

Dave Winer

#24. History is not a fixed truth. It changes with the speaker.

Jenn Reese

#25. 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.

Dave Winer

#26. Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy.

Jason Winer

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

Dave Winer