Photo taken from DrunkenBlog.

Founder of the Omni Group, and, more recently, the Delicious Monster, which makes the Delicious Library.

Wil is also a fantastic writer of prose. Presented as evidence is his blog, Call Me Fishmeal.

Writings

• Mr. Murray is Dead is a poignant article on the death of his cat.
• What is Omni? is considered the manifesto on starting a non-evil company. Written by Wil when he founded the Omni Group.

Quotes

• Doing what “everyone else” is doing is the surest route to failure.

• My feeling was (and is): You don’t adopt the mannerisms of big, successful companies when you’re small, because those mannerisms aren’t what made the companies successful.

  They’re actually symptoms of what is killing the company, because it’s become too big. It’s like if you meet an really old, really rich guy covered in liver spots and breathing with an oxygen tank, and you say, “I want to be rich, too, so I’m going to start walking with a cane and I’m going to act crotchety and I’m going to get liver disease.”

• Mac users love their machines; Windows users put up with their machines because they don’t believe there’s anything really better.

Interviews

• The DrunkenBlog Interview

Attachments

A PDF of a presentation he gave at the 2005 WWDC called “How to make money writing Mac software.”