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The ocean doesn’t care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny.
the computer in the case was telling an old familiar story—the international, materialistic fairy tale come true.
In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains.
often, in this case, young computer engineers who left corporate armies with dreams of building corporate armies of their own.
computers altered techniques and not intentions and in many cases served to increase the power of executives on top and to prop up venerable institutions. A more
Edson de Castro, then an engineer in his twenties, led the team that designed the PDP-8. The
Good machines don’t guarantee success,
Many young entrepreneurs, confusing ownership with control,
“Before, I was just driven, clawing…. Success has made me more rational and introspective.”
thats the case with most of the who's who
reading does not constitute knowing.
Give me a core dump meant “Tell me your thoughts,”
ha ha ha ha :)
“See. He can push, but when it comes time to pop, he goes off in all directions”—which
certainly engineers have their way of saying stuff :)
they might be hiring their own replacements—their own assassins.
yup ,better people always do that
“I didn’t go to school for six years just to get a paycheck.
true engineers give a fuck to money
“Artificial intelligence takes you away from your own trip.
Adventure’s a completely bogus world, but when you’re there, you’re there.
Yup
O yesh!
“When a computer engineer gets old, he gets turned out to pasture or else made into dog food.”
:)
Not Everything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Well.
Rightly so.
“Trust is risk, and risk avoidance is the name of the game in business,”
hmmmmmm
“the opportunities and pleasures of working.
that's the dream!
“I wanted to see what I was worth,”
Assessing and introspecting is important
bent on self-improvement.
hmmm
It doesn’t matter if you’re ugly or graceless or even half crazy; if you produce right results in this world, your colleagues must accept you.
yup
“Smart, opinionated and nonsensitive,
hmm
A simulator makes a slow computer but a fast tool.
yup
a place of sharp edges, functional, new—and twenty minutes
It’s Easy To Do It Yourself,
:)
“The reason why I work is because I win….
:)
“Computers are irrelevant.”
hmmm
“Realistically, you gotta lose one sometime,”
O yeah
it’s hard to fix something when it’s working.
True that!
“You assume it’s not gonna happen, and it always does.”
Absolutely!
“I don’t work for money.”
Very very few have claimed that..guts
“To me, if I can’t do it, it’s more of a challenge,”
...and there are aplenty I can't
noise tends to cause failures unpredictably, with no discernable pattern.
yup
sometimes there is no elegant approach.
True
Some problems are easy to find and hard to fix; some are hard to find and easy to fix;
exactly!
“When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm.
Norbert Weiner coined the term cybernetics
“Artificial intelligence” had always made for the liveliest of debates.
hmmmm
cybernetics tended to cheapen and corrupt human perceptions of human intelligence.
Righto!
forty percent of commercial applications of computers have proved uneconomical,
technology operates by its own terrible laws,
Norbert Weiner prophesied that the computer would offer “unbounded possibilities for good and for evil,”
“I don’t care how computers get sold. I just build ’em,”
Words of wisdom!
“you get used to what it should look like.”
hmm
“If it never failed, there wouldn’t be any point in making it work, would there?”
thing may also be judged according to the conditions under which it was built.
Yup
there must be managers who are willing to throw away the management handbooks and take some risks.
They are few and far.
