Who Has The Data Has The Power.

Anyone Who Puts A Small Gloss On A Fundamental Technology, Calls It Proprietary, And Then Tries To Keep Others From Building On It, Is A Thief.

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.

Money Is Like Gasoline During A Road Trip. You Don’t Want To Run Out Of Gas On Your Trip, But You’re Not Doing A Tour Of Gas Stations.

What New Technology Does Is Create New Opportunities To Do A Job That Customers Want Done.

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.