E pur si muove

“E pur si muove, as Galileo is reputed to have said in the face of Cardinal Bellarmine’s certainties, ‘And yet it moves.’”

— Via James Boyle’s The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain (pdf).

The 21st century data challenge

“This is the 21st century data challenge:
Not transactions.
Not data warehouses and business intelligence.
Not database backed web sites
Not even MySQL backed web services…
[The challenge is] real time cloud-based intelligence delivered to mobile applications with algorithmic intelligence”

— Tim O'Reilly, Keynote from 2010 MySQL conference, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqLB99dA48k