When You Have To Prove The Value

Being Too Early Is Indistinguishable From Being Wrong.

Think Of How Wikipedia Works, How Amazon Harnesses User Annotation On Its Site, The Way Photo-sharing Sites Like Flickr Are Bleeding Out Into Other Applications. We're Entering An Era In Which Software Learns From Its Users And All Of The Users Are Connected.

Obscurity Is A Bigger Problem For Authors Than Piracy.

Early On, When Software Was Developed By Computer Scientists, Just People Working With Computers, People Passed Around Software Because That Was How You Got Computers To Do Things.

Data Is The Next Intel Inside.