Community-Driven Innovation Quotes

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."

I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.