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  1. “Amazon.com passed many milestones in 1997: by year-end, we had served more than 1.5 million customers, yielding 838% revenue growth to $147.8 million, and extended our market leadership despite aggressive competitive entry.   But this is Day 1 for the Internet and, if we execute well, for Amazon.com. Today, online commerce saves customers money and precious time. Tomorrow, through personalization, online commerce will accelerate the very process of discovery.”

    www.secinfo.com
    arach

  2. “How does the app determine who's in the same room with you? Not with GPS, which is flummoxed by floors because it can't distinguish vertical distances between people. So Nguyen's team taught Color to use a phone's lighting and audio sensors, stitching their signals together with the sound and light environments of nearby devices to determine which user is where--it's almost like a bat's senses.”

    www.forbes.com
    arach

  3. “Do you have women in key positions? If you’re planning on targeting female customers, I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to have great women on your team.”

    techcrunch.com
    alexdao

  4. “Women are the routers and amplifiers of the social web.  And they are the rocket fuel of ecommerce.  The ongoing debate about women in tech has been missing a key insight. If you figure out how to harness the power of female customers, you can rock the world.”

    techcrunch.com
    alexdao

  5. “Today, we take it for granted, and in fact believe it is our birthright, to have computer products of ever-increasing power and complexity. This is why we buy new computer products every year, knowing that they are almost twice as powerful as last year's model. But if Moore's law collapses -- and every generation of computer products has roughly the same power and speed of the previous generation -- then why bother to buy new computers? Since chips are placed in a wide variety of products, this could have disastrous effects on the entire economy. As entire industries grind to a halt, millions could lose their jobs, and the economy could be thrown into turmoil. Years ago, when we physicists pointed out the inevitable collapse of Moore's law, traditionally the industry pooh-poohed our claims, implying that we were crying wolf. The end of Moore's law was predicted so many times, they said, that they simply did not believe it. But not anymore.”

    www.salon.com
    futureJproject

  6. “When things seemed utterly, permanently broken, I tried to remember what Leo says: “there has been a time in the evolution of everything that works when it didn't work.””

    blog.hipmunk.com
    arach

  7. “convincing the upcoming generation to innovate in sectors that have a direct impact on the quality of peoples’ lives (Internet, healthcare, energy, education) instead of wasting time on sectors that were historically prestigious (e.g. finance and law) but add little to negative economic and societal value.”

    cdixon.org
    arach

  8. “These actions confirm the end of the PC era.”

    www.asymco.com
    arach

  9. “The entire history of programming languages and paradigms is a history of being able to address the human more and more directly, and the machine less directly, as computers get ever-more powerful and able to perform the extra legwork involved in translating "higher-level" forms.”

    news.ycombinator.com
    solutious

  10. “The best employees are the ones who feel this is the last time they’re going to work for someone else.”

    www.quora.com
    arach