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> [Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/publishing-a-protocol-under-the-name-atom-that-tries-to-capture-all/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

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## More by Tim Bray

> [Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/bloggers-and-other-flavors-of-lone-wolf-are-publishing-heart/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/it-s-not-going-to-be-easy-enterprise-it-has-spent-decades-growing-a/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [“If you crank the pedantry and purism up, the Web is about URIs and REST. If you crank the controversy down, the Web is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/if-you-crank-the-pedantry-and-purism-up-the-web-is-about-uris-and/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/publishing-a-protocol-under-the-name-atom-that-tries-to-capture-all/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/for-heavens-sake-if-you-haven-t-gotten-comfy-with-agile-techniques/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/the-community-of-developers-whose-work-you-see-on-the-web-who/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/enterprise-systems-i-mean-and-not-just-a-little-bit-either-orders-of/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/all-the-php-code-i-ve-seen-in-that-experience-has-been-messy/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/free-markets-are-a-tool-free-speech-is-a-goal/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/it-s-like-this-the-time-between-having-an-idea-and-its-public-launch/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/wisdom-is-in-large-part-the-knowledge-of-how-to-avoid-doing-dumb/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

> [The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-bray/the-soap-stack-is-generally-regarded-as-an-embarrassing-failure-these/)

[Tim Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-bray/)

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