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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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4 years, 10 months ago

they would’ve gone into finance

Jamie Zawinski: And then, when the money came in, let’s just call it July ’94, the industry exploded. Suddenly, there’s another quarter-million people in this industry who are nineteen years old, twenty years old, and haven’t met these old hacker guys, and their experience with computing is complet…

—p.245 Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) Culture Hacking (235) by Adam Fisher
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4 years, 10 months ago

we did not want the web to be owned by anybody

Brian Behlendorf: We did not want the web to be owned by anybody, and felt that at least at the layer of web protocols, getting pages to people, we felt like the web server is like the printing press. All of us were running our own printing operations—building interesting websites, building interes…

—p.211 Jerry Garcia’s Last Words (205) by Adam Fisher
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4 years, 10 months ago

we are going to basically rule the planet

Lou Montulli: Jim got us superexcited. He is a very energetic, charismatic person when he wants to be, and he was giving us the full sell. He changed our perspective from “We just want to keep working on the web” to “We are going to go to Silicon Valley, we are going to change the fabric of the uni…

—p.209 Jerry Garcia’s Last Words (205) by Adam Fisher
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4 years, 10 months ago

we are going to basically rule the planet

Lou Montulli: Jim got us superexcited. He is a very energetic, charismatic person when he wants to be, and he was giving us the full sell. He changed our perspective from “We just want to keep working on the web” to “We are going to go to Silicon Valley, we are going to change the fabric of the uni…

—p.209 Jerry Garcia’s Last Words (205) by Adam Fisher
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4 years, 10 months ago

the ultimate reward for a top-level engineer

Marc Porat: Engineers do things because they want millions of people to touch it. That is the ultimate reward for a top-level engineer. And when millions of people do not touch it, where is your source? Where is your juice? Where is the passion coming from? Where does the juice come from to take it…

—p.177 From Insanely Great to Greatly Insane (162) by Adam Fisher