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Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.

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A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.

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Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but also left the infrastructure for this next golden age, effectively.

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We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.

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There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are paid shills for their companies. We still get a few of those, but we really try to police it. Think about who the audience is and what works for them, and deliver high-quality content.

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Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

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I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

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I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

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While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.

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I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Businessman

Born: June 6th, 1954

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