Even now, the photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans produce the oxygen in half the breaths you take, and they lock away an equal amount of carbon dioxide.
“After all, what’s another word for data storage in a computer? Memory. Memory, as in the sense of human memory, and as in the sense of history.”
― The Network State: How To Start a New Country
― The Network State: How To Start a New Country
“The world is strange, but simple”
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
“Everyone in the organization should have access to as much data as legally possible.”
― Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
― Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. Leslie Lamport”
― Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
― Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
“while people might care which company they join, they don’t care which company they work for. The truth is that, once there, people care which team they’re on.”
― Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
― Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
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