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The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.
It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?
When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.
You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.
Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.
Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.
The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.
The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs pennies per kilogram - cheaper than milk or beer.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.
We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.
It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.
Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.
One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.
Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.
People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.
PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?
If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction.
But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.