The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Richard Dawkins

The first Telephone Directory, for New Haven, Connecticut produced in 1878 was sold at auction at Christies in New York for $170,500.00.  Watch an IEEE.TV piece here.

I have a copy of the Hibbing Minnesota phone book from the 1950′s that I’ll sell for half of that!

Because of the nature of Moore’s law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

John Carmack

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that.  Word of mouth is very powerful.

Jeff Bezos

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.

Tim O’Reilly

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill
via email from David Reeg, Thursday, May 27, 2010

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