Tech Quotes

“Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.”
― Marc Andreessen

“The technology advancements during this stage, and over the next few years, will have a much greater positive impact on society than what the advancements in the past have produced.”
― Siddhartha Paul Tiwari

“The internet is nothing but a jumble of nonsense, an atrocious mixed metaphor. It’s not meant to be understood. First and foremost, it’s a web that you surf. What the hell does that even mean? It not only defies sense but the very laws of physics! And now, apparently, it also contains a cloud. And this is something that’s supposed to be secure? That which looks solid but in fact is not, something literally as thin as air? Perfect!”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“If you're not constantly testing, you're going to be tested constantly.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“It's impossible to leave positive footprints behind when you're gone, if you always walked on worried tiptoes before you left.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple only hire the best.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Large and obscure words tax mental resources too much, interrupting you from making your point and disconnecting you from your audience. That’s why simplicity in speech is valued and used by people in the most important fields, like tech and politics.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Google runs the world, Facebook runs the life, Apple provides the best tools for people to use these things. And Twitter begins revolutions, sparks real change.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“In each case, we must ask not only who designed the model but also what they person or company is trying to accomplish.”
― Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

“The question, however, is whether we've eliminated human bias or simply camouflaged it with technology.”
― Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

“Our cars are turning into smartphones with wheels.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In Silicon Valley, if you're not a white man, your identity is a ball and chain, from which you cannot escape.”
― Emily Chang

“This increased interconnectivity sets the stage for students to develop deep compassion for one another and be upstanders in their community and world. This is empowerment at its very core.”
― Katie Muhtaris, Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K-6 Classroom

“Young guys moving west after college no longer hope to become the next Steve Jobs, they want to become the next Mark Andreassen. The Valley has become a Casino where the VCS and Angel Investprs blindly bumping money into every slot machine hoping to hit the Jackpot. The difference is that the bunter who gets lucky on a slot machine doesn’t walk away convinced he is a Genius.
Instead of writing about tech, the industry‘s bloggers now write about venture deals and who raised how much at what valuation. The Valley has become obsessed with money, and there is a lot of it around.”
― Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

“One of the easiest ways to get noticed or hired as a junior developer in the tech industry is by documenting everything you are learning. Build great projects, but don't forget to document your journey along the way.”
― Olawale Daniel

“The metaverse can bring many life changing applications into our daily lives that will benefit us. However, our digital lives becoming more important than our physical lives is not the sort of life any of us should want to lead.”
― Arian Adeli Koodehi

“Don't shoot your shot, without testing your aim”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Storytelling doesn't mean you go into other peoples world. It means you bring them into yours”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“A startup founder is like a conductor of an orchestra, initially playing every instrument.

Whilst playing the instruments also finding talented people to take over each instrument and raise $ to buy better instruments.

All whilst ensuring the crowd doesn't leave and grows!”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Gatekeepers can only "gatekeep" so much of the world, but it's a big world out there.
Don't let anyone stop you”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“The most important components of leading other people are trust and communication”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“In startups, if your flywheels aren't turning, you aint earning.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“A founder isn't blinded by the conventional wisdom of the present, they've recognised the patterns of the past and see the clues to the future, now”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“In the end, the route of the journey does not matter.

So long as you have the will to arrive, you have enough for everything and will arrive when you're supposed to.

Learn and enjoy your journey.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“There's two types of founders

Parasitic:

They're happy to profit from destruction, removal of freedoms, tightening of controls + use exploitation.

Symbiotic:

They're determined to empower, increase independence, decentralise controls + won't exploit.

There is no in-between.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“People coded while they shat and needed to be provided toothbrushes at work. They had my attention.”
― Antonio García Martínez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

“Don't just think "mobile first". Think "search first", and invest in instrumenting search metrics on your website and within your product to see what users are looking for and what they are not able to find.”
― Alistair Croll, Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

“What is polarity? The measurement of gravity What is purity? The measurement of light
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Finite = NotFalse/IsTrue % Infinite; Rectangular = Triangle/Square % Circular; Ratio = Pyquad % Sequence;
ASCII = Hexagonals % Decimals;
Prismatics = Polarity % Purity;
Music = Octave % LikeHymn;
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e.g. It's IF
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Only The Penitent Man Shall Pass
" - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”
― Jonathan R. Mckinney

“We’re all busy, all the time.' He’s raising his voice. 'People think it’s all [A.I.'d] now and I sit in my workspace all day reading books and jerking off but it all just makes more work. Everything that was meant to lighten the load makes more work, it just makes more shit for you to deal with.”
― Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

“Totalitarianism is the belief that human intellect can be the guiding principle in life and society. It aims to create a utopian, artificial society led by technocrats or experts who, based on their technical knowledge, will ensure that the machine of society runs flawlessly. In this view, the individual is completely subordinated to being a cog in the machine of society.”
― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism