“Praising companies for providing APIs to get your own data out is like praising auto companies for not filling your airbags with gravel.”

—  Mark Pilgrim

Dive Into Mark http://web.archive.org/web/20110608004332/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/08/01/lolwreck, Wednesday, August 1, 2007

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