Max Ischenko

“Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“There still weren’t enough warm bodies in the area to meet demand. So companies went to extreme measures: three 12-hour-day workweeks, promises of extended holidays, biplanes towing employment ads over Stanford football games, bonuses to employees who brought in friends, open houses in which job offers were made on the spot”
― Michael S. Malone, The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley

“Then came the 1982 recession. The promises and prizes quickly disappeared and once again employers had a buyers’ market and the upper hand. By then, the game had changed.”
― Michael S. Malone, The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley

“National Public Radio’s long-running show called Car Talk. The show consisted of brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi—both MIT graduates—taking calls from people with questions about their cars. Improbably enough, it was hysterically funny, especially to them. They would laugh endlessly at their own jokes.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics