There’s really only one rule for community as far as I’m concerned, and it’s this - in order to call some gathering of people a "community", it is a requirement that if you’re a member of the community, and one day you stop showing up, people will come looking for you to see where you went. - Adam Fields

Source: http://www.aquick.org/blog/2007/05/15/the-first-rule-of-community/

Every web service has ended up being its own little snowflake, needing its own special treatment. The thing is, it's better than nothing so we trudge along and build the client libraries anyway.

- Les Orchard

Source: http://blogs.opml.org/decafbad/2007/05/27#When:2:35:59PM

Les Orchard says each API is a snowflake that every developer has to build custom interfaces for. Someday all these guys will realize they need to get together and come up with some standards for serializing data to simplify the work for themselves and developers. A lot of compromise and working together will be needed to make this happen. And when they have finished, many years from now, they will be where we were with XML-RPC in 1998. :-(

- Dave Winer

Source: http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/27/linksOnlyANerdCouldLove.html

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. - John Gall's 15th law of Semantics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

It's reasonable to talk about software as being alive. It's symbiotic. It needs a host geek in which to live.

- Jeremy Ruston (author of TiddlyWiki)

Source: from a talk about TiddlyWiki in London