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| < < | Having the capital cost of equipment drop to effectively zero allows you to think bigger. You start thinking about the whole thing. For instance, the gutsy maneuver of saying "let's index it all," which was the breakthrough of Altavista . Altavista in 1995 was an astonishing achievement, not because of the hardware -- yes, that was interesting and important from a technical perspective -- but because of the mindset. "Let's go index every document in the world." And once you have that sort of mindset, you can get really far. - Brewster Kahle | |||||||
| > > | I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being somthing elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth | |||||||
| (more CuteQuotes) Fun book I'm reading now: Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers. Pulitzer prize winner by a local author: a series of six vignettes each of which describes one crucial moment in the early history of this country, and the people who were involved in it. I'm through the first chapter, about the "interview" between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, and it was fascinating. Highly recommended. | ||||||||