Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Dave Winer is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and writer who resides in New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext, Userland Software and Small Picture Inc., a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 May 1955
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
A quite simple, but powerful technology that empowers individuals to keep control over and manage their digital identities.
Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
Note that no one asked Mike if his code was open source or if his underwear is clean.
There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.
Actually, I would have liked to sell sooner. Keeping the site running was a perpetual challenge. We would scale and it would just grow exponentially.
I don't want to say these things. That's why I'm saying them. You may not want to hear them. That's why you should hear them.
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.