"Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the do..." — Tim O'Reilly

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

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.

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.