Gnomon
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System exists for the people, not the other way around, and in the end it is the people who are empowered—and required—by the machine to take any and all of the hard decisions that arise.
“As in life, so in business: maintain a bias for action over inaction.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
“Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before someone made them pay for what they thought they were getting for free. Why could nobody see this?”
― The Candy House
― The Candy House
“To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. Wall”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“You make what you measure, so measure carefully.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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