“Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.” IfsYearsWellsPersonsWould BeWantedWalksStepsMillionsDesignWalkingSkillsComplicatedBillionsSoftwareRobotsCalculationsEvery Step Author:David Pogue
“Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.” MayStatesUnitedNumbersEnemyUnited StatesProduceSkillsProgramDrivenInsaneIdeologyPlanesNationalismSoftwareIrrationalTanksAutomobileDiplomaticEthnicityHelicoptersDo Not Fear Book:A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan Source: A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
“While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.” WorryInformationStudentsInternetSkillsComputerArgumentFavorsDebateVideoLandscapeSoftwareClassroomDeclineFree SpeechShallowLiteracyLinearArithmeticSpellingDiscounts Author:David Gelernter
“Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.” PeopleIfsWritingWellsEndsPaySkillsBallsLuckInvestingAssetsSoftwareKickingLuck And Skill Author:Bill Gates
“The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.” PeopleWritingImportantSkillsPicksSoftwareDevelopers Author:Bill Gates
“Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.” IfsWantPlayProblemBigsCompanyRolesFailingCenturySkillsComplexesValuableSoftwareFoundersFluency Author:Alexis Ohanian
“Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWellsKindMadeHelpingWantedRealizingMistakeCareersMillionsAdviceSkillsCreatingOkayUselessTitlesRanSoftwareBiggest MistakeChecklistsUseless Things Author:Reid Hoffman