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“If you’re the most intelligent person in the room, you’re in the wrong room”

James Watson

Luckily, I spend a lot of my time in the right rooms.

“We all know what needs to be done. We just don’t know how to be re-elected when we’ve done it”.

Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and president of the Euro group of prime ministers, quoted in the Economist, Nov 17, 2012.

“It takes about the same amount of computing to answer one Google Search query as all the
computing done — in flight and on the ground — for the entire Apollo program.”

Comment attributed to Peter Norvig and Udi Mepher of Google on hearing of the death of Neil Armstrong.

From Seb Schmoller’s fascinating reflections on his time at ALT-C.

“I’ll believe corporations are people persons when Texas executes one”.

Protest placard quoted by Larry Lessig in his Graduation Address to John Marshall Law School.

“Google has great customer service. Problem is, you’re not the customer.”

Bruce Schneier.

“Computing has changed from being something you go to a computer to do to something that the computer comes with you to do. It’s a subtle change, but world-altering for PC makers.”

Astute observation by Charles Arthur in today’s Observer.

“Warren Buffett doesn’t have any more Google than I have, or the unemployed person has.”

Andrew McAfee of MIT in an interview.

“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them,… well, I’ve got others.”

Groucho Marx

Funny that this quote should the one that came to mind when I was thinking about David Cameron.

“Don’t sleep with a drip. Phone a plumber.”

Seen on the back of a white van while sitting at traffic lights.

“There’s always an upside. When stocks go down, bonds go up. When any hamster-based startup can raise $50 million on a $1 billion market cap, there’s not much market for new ideas. Why bother, when the same-old-stuff can make you rich. But when the bubble fades, it’s time to get creative. Because tech will reboot. The question is, what’s the next wave.”

Dave Winer.