Putting your money where your mouth is
When you talk about software “eating” the world, investing $100M in github is about as close to “putting your money where your mouth is” as it gets.
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
- Aaron Swartz
More than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. were founded by immigrants or their children
- Steve Case
Sounds about right
JavaScript keeps you honest. In almost any other code environment you can throw as much code as you’d like at the problem and if it works at the end of what you’ve written, it’s not gonna hurt you … You can’t write 100k lines of JS and not have it be an issue.
When you talk about software “eating” the world, investing $100M in github is about as close to “putting your money where your mouth is” as it gets.
While I may be far from a UX guy, I do have a sort of OCD for UI elements and good design. I often joke that this combination is the worst one possible — I can identify when things are wrong, but I don’t have the skills to correct them, which must make me a pretty hilarious person to work with….
Damn that’s my password!!
Everyone likes the cutting edge, until they cut themselves.
- David Heinemeier Hansson