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but I’m going to need a team: an artist, a couple programmers, and a manager, because I don’t want to sit there interfacing with management all day; I want to program.”
“In fact, he had never really gotten the appeal most people found in hapless diversions. He would see things on television about drunken spring break beach weekends, and none of it would compute. A lot of people didn’t seem to enjoy their work. Carmack knew well and good what he enjoyed—programming—and was systematically arranging his life to spend the most time possible doing just that.”
― Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
― Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
“He was hired to be a manager, not a visionary. Unlike Intel’s prior CEOs—Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, Andy Grove, and Craig Barrett—Otellini’s background was not in engineering or physics, but in economics.”
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
“The boots fit perfectly. Billy Pilgrim was Cinderella, and Cinderella was Billy Pilgrim.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Just a handful of years after Intel turned down the iPhone contract, Apple was making more money in smartphones than Intel was selling PC processors.”
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
“But ever since he had been a child, he had wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing God and learning about man’s sins.”
― The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
― The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
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