Approach Quote by Jimmy Wales

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

— Niklaus Wirth

Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy.…

— Cory Doctorow

To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

— Peter Diamandis

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

— Jose Ferreira

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can…

— Linus Torvalds

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

— Margaret Spellings

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

— Dan Kaminsky

The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated.

— Jan Koum

It only takes a little innovation.

— W. Edwards Deming

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.

— Walter Bender

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman