29 quotes found
Businessman · American · 1971
American businessman (born 1971)
“There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.”
“I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time...”
“[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.”
“Software is eating the world”
“The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless”
“Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”
“The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges -- the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here.”
“The two premodern religions were ancestor worship and nature worship (see The Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges). The two postmodern religions are evidently identitarianism and environmentalism. ...”
“I'm glad there's OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”