“The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.” Quote by Jean-Louis Gassee
“When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because it's all pros and no cons, then I know I'm being conned.” KnowsIdeasCausesTermAlternativesPropositionsLeaving Me Author:Jean-Louis Gassee
“You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.” PeopleKnowsDangerousWindowFaithfulMacsBumperStickerBumper Sticker Author:Jean-Louis Gassee
“Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.” MenRunningDevelopmentMachinesFasterApplicationBrowsers Author:Bill Gates
“Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.” PeopleDoeSometimesFactsAbleImaginationIndustryBeatsSoftwareCompetitorsMicrosoftVigilant Author:Bill Gates
“Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.” ThinkingKnowsTeacherMake You ThinkYou Think You Know Author:Bill Gates
“I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.” GivingRealEnoughSeemsFilmBitsInterestingMillionsSawsSeaStyleCoupleDirectorsLogicHollywoodTinyDisasterReal LifeHeatFrankCatastrophePassengersJulietPerksAtticsWacky Author:Paul Rudnick
“The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.” YearsFallEnergyHoursMemoriesEconomyEconomicInformationKeysResourcesRetirementDelayRulingWireClicheGoverningShortageScarcityAluminumResidual Author:George Gilder
“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.” FirstsWellsTwoEndsMomentsPastThreeNumbersFourCuttingWeekLandCoupleMajorsThirdsInnovationAverageDecadesGoodsSiteIntroductionDeliveryOver The PastTransactionsMajor Change Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.” PeopleIdeasDreamPerfectForgetMillionsFourProgressPerfectionCreditSixtyChipsTransistors Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).” PeopleInternetComputerLaptopsLaptop Computers Author:Seth Godin