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" A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books. "
Dialogue
Always
Book
" A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government. "
Technology
Culture
Work
" A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work. "
Work
Internet
Language
" Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated. "
Now
Authority
Data
" An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. "
Make
Started
World
" Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there. "
Apple
Like
Position
" A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not. "
Life
Alone
Good
" At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. "
Business
Think
Knowledge
" Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are the really important people to invite and get them to show up as speakers or as guests. Then everybody wants to be there. If you don't know who the important people are, you shouldn't be doing a conference. "
You
Doing
Important
" 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. "
Work
Small
Empowerment
" Everybody's enamored of the iPhone, the Google phone. But the applications are going to change. You know, we're going to start using our phones for shopping. It's going to change the nature of advertising. "
Advertising
Nature
Change
" Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible. "
Run
You
Money
" I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that. "
Broken
Better
People
" I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive. "
Think
Believe
Human
" I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term. "
Products
Long
Because
" I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments. "
Learn
Time
Sing
" If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else. "
Enough
Think
Innovation
" I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is going to go. And that is where I think I've tried over the years to in some ways use my customers as a filter or a predictor of where technology as a whole is going to go. Or where the world as a whole is going to go. "
World
Culture
Good
" If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money. "
Money
Yes
You
" I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money. "
Doing
Technology
People
" I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor - that's common in every new technology revolution. There are imitators who have marginal improvements. "
Say
New
Technology
" I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it. "
Think
Paths
Go
" I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away. "
See
Away
Books
" I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher. "
Experience
End
Fate
" I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change. "
Will
Succeed
Change
" I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is. "
Always
Most
Time
" I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak. "
People
Feel
Me
" It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad. "
Government
Railroad
Building
" I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it. "
Control
Better
You
" I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life. "
Control
Work
Support
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