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Customarily, whenever the word brilliant is used, it either precedes the word but (cf. “We are all for brilliance, but…”) or is coupled with such words as erratic, eccentric, introvert, screwball, etc.
every new Lockheed airplane from now until eternity would be created by Silicon Graphics’ technology.
People with modest programming skills in front of a Silicon Graphics work station sometimes felt a bit like a man in a Lamborghini on a two-lane road.
“People were yelling and screaming at each other, over the most petty things—not even business things,”
Moore’s law, which stated that the price of computing power would fall by half every eighteen months,
otherwise divert themselves from the poverty of their existences.
Marc Andreessen.
the new, higher price for concepts, and the people who dreamed them up, was obviously worth paying.
The definitive smell inside a Silicon Valley start-up was of curry.
An American courtroom is designed first and foremost to preserve the social order, to keep the poor boy down.
