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“Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it's a given the role for which you're hiring is going to change. Yesterday's widget will be obsolete tomorrow, and hiring a specialist in such a dynamic environment can backfire. A specialist brings an inherent bias to solving problems that spawns from the very expertise that is his putative advantage, and may be threatened by a new type of solution that requires new expertise. A smart generalist doesn't have bias, so is free to survey the wide range of solutions and gravitate to the best one.”

“Uyanmak için normalde çalar saat kullanmıyor olacaksınız. Onun yerine taze pişirilmiş bir kahve kokusu, otomatik açılan perdeler sayesinde odaya dolan gün ışığı ve ileri teknoloji ürünü yatağınızın yumuşak sırt masajıyla açacaksınız gözlerinizi. Büyük olasılıkla dinlenmiş olarak kalkacaksınız yataktan, çünkü yatağın içinde, uyku ritminizi izleyerek uyanma anınızı bir REM döngüsünü bozmayacak şekilde titizlikle ayarlayan özel bir sensör bulunacak”

“You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.”