Create More Value Than You Capture.

An Invention Has To Make Sense In The World It Finishes In, Not In The World It Started.

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 Far Greater Threat To Authors And Creative Artists Than Piracy.

Architecture Trumps Licensing Any Time.

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.