“Marketing to attract users to web applications does not make any difference in the rate of adoption. You can get more people to register, but you can’t get more of them to adopt. Registrations grow from marketing, and adoption grows from referrals.

“For each new source of information you track, there is an equally old and useless source you must throw away.

“As startup costs drop you’re going to get more founders who aren’t primarily entrepreneurs, they’re primarily do-ers.

“Whatever it professes, practical politics has always been about the systematic organization of hatreds.

“Almost every is-a relationship would be better off re-articulated as a has-a relationship.

“No one seems to be pointing out that Google practically owns the development of Firefox. The browser’s lead engineer and most of the other full-time devs are Google staff.

“The golden years of offshoring (1995-2005) suppressed inflation around the world; goods were getting cheaper because they got made in cheaper places. That is over. Inflation is back.

“Trademark rights are destructive to the cooperation and trust necessary for successful open source projects. An open source project has a large number of authors, but the trademark on it must belong to just one of those authors. US trademark law sucks because it doesn’t recognize legitimate community claim to partial ownership.

“Code is more clear if it is more testable.

“Although software people and library people belong to different tribes, we’re both guild navigators; when we integrate software services and information sources, we are folding information space.