Author: Dr Wingnut
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First Telephone Directory
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!
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Progression
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
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Best advertising ever
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.Jeff Bezos
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Open source
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
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Bugs
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.Andrew S. Tanenbaum