August 2011
“the number one cause of startup failure: Premature scaling.”
—What Kills Startups? Blackbox Releases Report/App To Help Founders Avoid The Deadpool | TechCrunch (via pieratt)
“It begs the question of whom Google built this service for? You or them. And the answer to why you need to use your real name in the service is because they need you to. Well at least we got that out there and can deal with it.”
—Fred (via brycedotvc)
“It was as if Alan Mulally left Boeing to join Ford as C.E.O., and announced six months later that Ford would be making airplanes”
—For Seamless Transitions, Don’t Look to Hewlett (via siminoff)
“Ganson invented HOT’s first product, Toobers and Zots, which are moldable foam tubes. That invention came about because, one day at a street festival, Ganson, who was slightly inebriated, saw someone carrying a long, skinny, squiggly balloon and thought that it was some kind of bendy foam—and a really neat toy. When he sobered up, he realized his error but decided to go ahead and invent moldable foam tubes.”
—Annals of Invention: Thinking in the Rain : The New Yorker
“The truth is that the conflict was between two poles of the underprivileged: those who have succeeded in functioning within the system versus those who are too frustrated to go on trying. The rioters’ violence was almost exclusively directed against their own.”
—Slavoj Žižek · Shoplifters of the World Unite (print version) · LRB 19 August 2011
“In some respects, I think Apple is a great company. Then they try to patent the dimensions of their devices, or phrases like App Store… and I’m reminded that they’re just as bad as the rest.”
—Samsung Cites Kubrick’s ‘2001’ Film as Prior Art Defense Against Apple’s Injunction Request - Mac Rumors (via rafer)
You’re pulling my leg
Guillermo was ready to prove he was the best “tag” player on the island.
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“The cyberworld is so new that the old structures, you know—state, non-state, public, private—they all break down … The last time we had such a powerful discontinuity is probably the European discovery of the Western Hemisphere. At that point, we had some big, multi-national corporations—East India Company and Hudson’s Bay—that acted as states. And I see elements of that with the big Microsofts and Googles of the world.”
—Enter the Cyber-dragon | Culture | Vanity Fair
“A former White House official told me, “After Google got hacked, they called the N.S.A. in and said, ‘You were supposed to protect us from this!’ The N.S.A. guys just about fell out of their chairs. They could not believe how naïve the Google guys had been.”
—Enter the Cyber-dragon | Culture | Vanity Fair
