Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who “do not usually know what’s supposed to be impossible.
If you can’t tell someone how to think, then you have to learn to manage the environment where they think.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
Your car should drive itself. It’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
I’ve come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It’s constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
I used to say that you’ll have 10 IP address on your body… and it looks like that’s going to happen through medical monitoring.
I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.