Adam Hamrick

“But sportsbooks and racebooks make up only about 2 percent of gaming revenues at Las Vegas Strip casinos and 1 percent of overall revenues. They can be a bigger part of the business at off-Strip properties like Westgate and Circa, where sportsbooks help to draw in huge crowds on football weekends. Ultimately, however, sports betting is a medium-sized business. In 2022, the legal online sports-betting market in the U.S. generated about $7.5 billion in net betting revenue. That’s not nothing, and the market will grow as more states legalize it. But the Vegas Strip alone generates more gambling revenue than that. Heck, the frozen pizza market in the U.S. is worth about $20 billion annually.”
― Nate Silver, On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

“This book is about one thing: complexity. Dealing with complexity is the most important challenge in software design. It is what makes systems hard to build and maintain, and it often makes them slow as well.”
― John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

“For example, consider the leap second on June 30, 2012, that caused many applications to hang simultaneously due to a bug in the Linux kernel”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“And his dreams late that night, after the Braintree/Bob Death Commitment, seem to set him under a sort of sea, at terrific depths, the water all around him silent and dim and the same temperature he is.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest