Gary Lang

“Silicon Valley has never been interested in slow and steady growth—an early winning appearance is key to the Palo Alto System.”
― Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

“After I left the White House, when Trump abandoned the Kurds in Syria, there was speculation about who he might abandon next.27 Taiwan was right near the top of the list, and would probably stay there as long as Trump remained President, not a happy prospect.”
― John R. Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

“It’s worth noting that IBM’s program, named Watson, had access to 200 million pages of content consuming four terabytes of memory.”
― Jerry Kaplan, Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“I briefed Trump on what we knew, and he said he might tweet about it. I urged him, if he did so, to rely only on public sources, but as was so often the case, he ignored this warning, tweeting instead: Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and safe! Many are blaming me, and the United States, for the problems going on in Hong Kong. I can’t imagine why? So much for stopping all those leaks from the “deep state.”
― John R. Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir