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Quote by Dave Winer

“I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.”

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Dave Winer (born May 2, 1955) is an American software developer widely recognized as the "father of RSS" and a pioneer of podcasting technology. As the creator of the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) protocol, Winer revolutionized how people consume online content through automated content aggregation. He founded UserLand Software and developed numerous influential internet tools. His blog, Scripting News, launched in 1997, is considered one of the earliest blogs in the world. more

“If you spend your own money on yourself, you care how much you spend and how well you spend it. If you spend your own money on someone else, you care how much you spend, but you don't care how well it is spent. If you spend someone else's money on yourself, you don't care how much you spend, but you do care how well it is spent. And finally, if you spend someone else's money on someone else, you don't care how much you spend, and you don't care how well it is spent. That is government.”

Ifs Wells Government Care Don't Care

Author:Milton Friedman

“When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.”

People Knows Jobs Spending Desirable Lobbying Spending Other People's Money

Author:Tim Worstall

“I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.”

Years Wells Home America Born Praying Fairs Cute Our Family Honey Praying To God Not Fair

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.”

Giving May Easy Mass Absolutes Sake Gravity Transport Levity

Book:The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects, Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790, Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations

Source: The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects, Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790, Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations

“There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.”

Hours Five Doors Miles Bus Throwing Sixty Throwing Up

Author:Izzy Stradlin

“I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.”

World Writing Ends Enough Song Week Car Ten Paid Sells Forty

Author:Scott Weiland

“I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.”

Long I Can Play Boring Solo

Author:Eric Clapton

“I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.”

Whole Bigs Trouble Mouths Whole Life

Author:Steven Tyler