• ... is the future of application development particularly for the web and for distributed systems
• ... is on it's way to become Java, SQL, HTML, and JavaScript in one language
• ... is easy to learn and straightforward to use
• ... gives you instant power of efficient XML application development
• ... relieves you of control flow and multi-thread synchronization pain while leveraging the full magic of multi-core processing for free

"Why XQuery is Awesome [...] Gracefully applying the joy of sets to XML content [...] Can replace a kitchen sink of earlier technologies."

"Frustrating thing is I could do the entire app for the customer in XQuery in 1/10 the time, but they want their frameworks"

"you could reduce your query to one line in XQuery replacing 20 lines of PHP+SimpleXML"

"Learning how to use XML, XHTML, and XQuery is of critical importance to every web designer or programmer. [...] Web designers need to be conscious of this and start designing web sites that utilize XML and XQuery."

"Really missed working in #xquery lately, you can just stick on some good music and produce amazing results very quickly"

"[...] the worldwide NoSQL market is expected to reach $1.8 Billion by 2015 at a CAGR of 32% between 2011 and 2015. NoSQL market will generate $5.6 Billion revenues over the period 2011 – 2015."

"Most people will be surprised by how simple it is to learn and use. [...] a native XML data model based language just "makes sense" when reading and producing XML languages."

"XQuery is married to XML"

"#congility2011 with XML we have a new way of retrieving info: XQuery "boom, boom, boom I can get what I want instantly" @arockley"

"I feel a strange desire to become an xquery developer"

"Late night working. If it wasn't for the fact that I was writing tools in XQuery I'd be alot more upset."