“The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.” IdeasBigsHappensFoundInterestingIntelligentEfficientCommerceMost InterestingReplacementsStripesOfflineBehemoth Author:Patrick Collison
“I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.” MadeDifferencesQualityCompanyClearWebsite Author:Patrick Collison
“When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.” PeopleIdeasDifferentRememberHouseMovedDifferent Ideas Author:Patrick Collison
“The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.” PeopleThinkingWritingHardReasonUsedProcessParticularInstanceReason WhyProgramming Author:Gerald Jay Sussman
“A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.” DoeProcessDefinitions Author:Gerald Jay Sussman
“The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.” LooksUnderstandingKnowingKeysComplicatedComplicated Things Author:Gerald Jay Sussman
“Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat” ToolsThreatArtificial IntelligenceArtificial Author:Rodney Brooks
“I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field.” PeopleThinkingWorldMayLittlesEasyTechnologyShareDangerousFieldsBillsGatesTechnologicalGeneralizationMusk Author:Rodney Brooks
“So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.” IfsKnowsTryingLittlesHandsBitsSimpleCommonGoneTasksTinyCommon SenseRobotsCleaningSimple ThingsRepetitive Author:Rodney Brooks
“Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers there, the biggest problems in mainland China are recruiting and retention. There isn't an endless supply of cheap labor anymore in China. And it's now true that the labor rates in Mexico are lower than in China.” ThinkingWellsProblemBigsSeeingLaborRateChinaEndlessMexicoManufacturingRetentionCheap Labor Author:Rodney Brooks