Quotes by Dave Winer

“OK, hes a Yankees fan. Now I know why I dont like him.”

“You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. Thats the way the world works.”

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

“I dont want to say these things. Thats why Im saying them. You may not want to hear them. Thats why you should hear them.”

“Note that no one asked Mike if his code was open source or if his underwear is clean.”

“The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things wont be exploded deliberately by people who dont create anything.”

“Another person whos smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.”

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

“Either well succeed and have a well-financed development and operations company, or well put Frontier in mothballs, and revisit it next year. So the stakes are high for us.”

“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.”

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.