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I think the big story here is the convergence of Web 2.0 front ends with Web services-enabled back ends.


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ERIC HOFFER Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH