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"I was captivated by the first half of this book, but things quickly took a turn. The author starts making bold accusations against some of Dallas' most well-known figures, and the story devolves into nothing more than gossip and speculation. It’s a huge letdown after such an engaging start." Dec 23, 2024 06:46AM

 
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Seibel: So you started out saying software reuse is “appallingly bad,” but opening up every black box and fiddling with it all hardly seems like movement toward reusing software. Armstrong: I think the lack of reusability comes in ...more
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Steven Levy
“People were indeed comfortable with sharing, Zuckerberg told him. A third of his users, he said, share their cell-phone numbers on their profile page. “That’s evidence that they trust us.” Graham was startled at how emotionless and hesitant this kid was. At times, before he’d answer a question—even something that he must have been asked thousands of times, like what percentage of Harvard kids were on Thefacebook—he would fall silent, staring into the ether for thirty seconds or so. Does he not understand the question? Graham wondered. Did I offend him? Nonetheless, before the meeting was over, Graham became convinced that Thefacebook was the best business idea he’d heard in years, and told Zuckerberg and Parker that if they wanted an investor who was not a VC, the Post would be interested.”
Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

Yuval Noah Harari
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can’t live without it. Let’s take another familiar example from our own time. Over the last few decades, we have invented countless time-saving devices that are supposed to make life more relaxed – washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. Previously it took a lot of work to write a letter, address and stamp an envelope, and take it to the mailbox. It took days or weeks, maybe even months, to get a reply. Nowadays I can dash off an email, send it halfway around the globe, and (if my addressee is online) receive a reply a minute later. I’ve saved all that trouble and time, but do I live a more relaxed life?”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Michael   Lewis
“The trouble, Danny suspected, was that “the understanding of numbers is so weak that they don’t communicate anything. Everyone feels that those probabilities are not real—that they are just something on somebody’s mind.”
Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Michael   Lewis
“That was the moment I gave up on decision analysis,” said Danny. “No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.” As Danny and Lanir wrote, decades later, after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency asked them to describe their experience in decision analysis, the Israeli Foreign Ministry was “indifferent to the specific probabilities.”
Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Kevin Rodgers
“It is an infallible rule of management that if you let the people who work for you think they’ve come up with an idea they will strain to make it happen much more willingly than if the idea is seen to be yours.”
Kevin Rodgers, Why Aren't They Shouting?: A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis

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