Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Ford

Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.

Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.

Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable.