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“A lot of the machines that Google is built oncommodity is the polite word for themthey're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.”
“A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.”
“The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip ...”
“..determination is the most important quality in a founder, open-mindedness and willingness to change your idea are key, and all startups face rejection at first.”
“Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challengingto take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.”
“The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your won thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing...”
“Paul Buchheit: I'm suddenly reminded that, for a while, I asked people if they were playing Russian Roulette with a gun with a billion barrels (or some huge number, so in other words, some low prob...”
