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.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

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.

Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.