Kevin Maney
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"A young American consultant, suffering a quarter life crisis, decides to take advantage of the major global business trend of his era – the tumultuous shift from the Soviet state-run economy to a free market Russia. But within minutes of landing in M"
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“The human brain has a mechanism for dealing with data overload. It forgets. If indeed we’re on a path to building machines that think like us, how ironic if the next great invention in computer memory turns out to be forgetting.”
― Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company
― Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company
“Maybe that’s why we did things so fast,” said Jerrier Haddad, a managing engineer on the 701. “We didn’t have schedules to slow us down.”
― Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company
― Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company
“...A well-written, well-organized book packages the author's brain. It is the purest, richest, most complete way to take what's inside one person's brain and move it into another person's brain...As long as society finds it valuable to consume the stories, research, and thoughts of its intellectual leaders, the basic idea of the book should endure. Paper books will get pressured by electronic versions over time, but the art form should remain vital.”
― Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
― Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
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