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“Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.”

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Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups,…

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In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

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Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

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When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot…

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Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is…

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We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

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It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

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The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

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We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.

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Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

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You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

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The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the Silicon Valley…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

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But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second…

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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I've been in real estate for a long time and I always try to stay on the edge. I'm really excited about the partnership…

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If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will…

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Everything for us is a system. We don't think about it discretely as just as a piece of hardware, or discretely as an application...…

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To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible…

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Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

Joseph Mercado

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“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

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