Big Data Quotes

“Did you know the New York Stock Exchange originated in a small café on Wall Street? It was run out of that same café until 1817.”
― Lucas Carlson, Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

“Doug could tell the man was a lawyer just by how he walked. So smug and full of himself. Three years in law school and pretentious English majors turn into unholy assholes.”
― Lucas Carlson, Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

“There was a full Argentine asado with the best cuts of meat available. Vacío, bondiola, bife, cuadril, paleta, molleja, entrecote.”
― Lucas Carlson, Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

“Doug thought about Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who, in the nineteenth century, tore down and rebuilt Paris. Before Haussmann, Paris had been a filthy rat’s nest of shit-covered streets. So he did what was needed, even though it wasn’t the most popular course of action. The historian Réné Héron de Villefosse once said: “The old ship of Paris was torpedoed by Baron Haussmann and sunk during his reign. It was perhaps the greatest crime of the megalomaniac prefect, and also his biggest mistake. His work caused more damage than a hundred bombings.”
― Lucas Carlson, Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

“contumacious”
― Lucas Carlson, Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

“Conifer. It’s a dynamically typed Lisp without parenthesis tuned for machine learning.”
― Lucas Carlson, Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel