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Wharton quants accredited by Brooks Brothers inspo/funny

We realized then that our decision was becoming more complicated. All the toolbars we were interviewing were more obnoxious than anyone tech. They were not smart, just articulate, mouth vectored, conventionally staffable. Wharton quants accredited by Brooks Brothers, displaying their lobbying aptit…

—p.286 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
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it was the corresponding ad that sealed the deal

Apparently, he was also the volunteer tech for the Sacramento County Historical Society, and had even designed his own GeoCities page—“The contents of this page do not reflect, refract, diffract, or diffuse the opinions of the Sacramento County Historical Society”—which documented his genealogy wit…

—p.282 by Joshua Cohen
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most famous for having basically invented silicon

Carbon founding CEO was John Bates, JBates, most famous for having basically invented silicon, which comprises as like a quarter of the earth and so he basically invented the earth. There was a massive hunk of that element in the middle of his desk and clear crucibles lined along the mantel in whic…

—p.282 by Joshua Cohen
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unprofitable toddlers in hefty mental diapers

We took their least expensive barbedwire enclosure and stuffed it with our production serverack, the Ultra and Pentium IIs, a cruft of external driveage. Basically it was a maximum security humane society in heat. Locks were not provided. Next on one side was the cage for eBay, next on the other th…

—p.251 by Joshua Cohen
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able to platinize their lawnmowers

[...] Sony, and offered him equity in GPS tritels that would be so clovered by the millennium that even the receptionists would be able to platinize their lawnmowers. [...]

—p.250 by Joshua Cohen