The Problem For Most Artists Isn't Piracy,

Create More Value Than You Capture.

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.

Empowerment Of Individuals Is A Key Part Of What Makes Open Source Work, Since In The End, Innovations Tend To Come From Small Groups, Not From Large, Structured Efforts.

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.

The Nice Thing About Twitter Is The Architecture Of Visibility. Email Is Invisible Unless You Reach Out To Someone Directly. With Twitter, Anyone Can Follow You And This Is One Of The Big Changes That Was Really Introduced By Flickr, Was This Wonderful Idea That You Can Follow Somebody Without Their Permission. Recognizing That Relationships Are Asymmetrical, Unlike Facebook Where We Have To Acknowledge Each Other Otherwise We Can’t See Each Other.