Tim Bray Quotations

The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.

For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.

All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in dozens of places.

These tools are changing the basic core economics of software development.

From the point of view of the company, it has been really all upside: the costs have been low, there haven't been any problems and it has been a huge business success,