A Book Is Always A Dialogue With

The Future Is Always Scary To Those Who Cling To The Past.

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 The Unlettered People Of The Middle Ages Who Were Told What To Think By The Literate Priesthood. We Had A Renaissance When More People Could Read And Write; We'll Have Another One When Everyone Programs.

Share What You Do Profusely, Because It Will Be Remixed By Others Into Something New, Rich And Strange.

Empowerment Of Individuals Is A Key Part Of What Makes Open Source Work, Since In The End, Innovations Tend To Come From Small Groups, Not From Large, Structured Efforts.

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.