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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 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.

Obscurity Is A Bigger Problem For Authors Than Piracy.

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.

When You Have To Prove The Value Of Your Ideas By Persuading Other People To Pay For Them, It Clears Out An Awful Lot Of Woolly Thinking.

There Are More Than 21 Ebook Channels Already. Authors Can’t Possibly Get To These And Do What They Do Best.