Close to the Machine

It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I’m not sure if they’d give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again.

When the humans come back to talk changes, I can just run the program. Show them: Here. Look at this. See? This is not just talk. This runs. Whatever you might say, whatever the consequences, all you have are words and what I have is this, this thing I’ve built, this operational system. Talk all you want, but this thing here: it works.

Anarchocapitalist

Once we were impressed by buildings; now we are impressed by virtual on-line spaces

If you’re not terrified in this profession, you really don’t know what you’re doing.

One VC proposed a toast. “Work hard!” he exclaimed. Another raised his glass. “Work long hours!” he said.