thomasmarriott | 4 years ago | on: Fuck Your Miracle Year
Benjamin Franklin.
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thomasmarriott | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost
No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time – And What They Did Next by Chris Wright
thomasmarriott | 4 years ago | on: History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II (2020)
'...Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should We continue to fight, not only would it result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization...'
— Hirohito, August 14,1945
thomasmarriott | 6 years ago | on: The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
-Einstein
thomasmarriott | 6 years ago | on: We Sold Pando
Jake Lodwick = Cofounder of Vimeo (acquired by IAC), first dev of CollegeHumor (acquired by IAC), and a serial investor.
thomasmarriott | 6 years ago | on: We Sold Pando
"An acquisition is always a failure" — Pando, 2013
"An acquisition, or an aqui-hire, is always a failure. Either the founders failed to achieve their goal, or – far likelier – they failed to dream big enough. The proper ambition for a tech entrepreneur should be to join the ranks of the great tech companies, or, at least, to create a profitable, independent company beloved by employees, customers, and shareholders."
https://pando.com/2013/04/02/an-acquisition-is-always-a-fail...
thomasmarriott | 6 years ago | on: Alex Honnold's next summit: the rest of his life
Great book:
"No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time – And What They Did Next"
by Chris Wright
thomasmarriott | 6 years ago | on: A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises
thomasmarriott | 6 years ago | on: Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
Ironic: "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." —Gates, 1995
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#The_Road_Ahead_(199...
thomasmarriott | 6 years ago | on: Blue Moon
"At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities."
thomasmarriott | 6 years ago | on: Blue Moon
Exactly — THE WAY OUT IS UP:
thomasmarriott | 7 years ago | on: The Baghdad Battery
thomasmarriott | 7 years ago | on: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self government."
Full context of "empire": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Liberty
thomasmarriott | 7 years ago | on: Jerry Merryman, an Inventor of the Calculator Dies
Gig'em.
thomasmarriott | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
Accepting the truth is far less painful than rediscovering it.
thomasmarriott | 7 years ago | on: $250 Trillion in Debt: The World’s Post-Lehman Legacy
"The system is insolvent. No one knows what to do next — except repeat the insanity till the next bubble blows. That'll be the one. The big one."
— Gekko, Wall Street 2, 2010
#thewayoutisup
thomasmarriott | 7 years ago | on: Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86
Live long and prosper, Captain.
thomasmarriott | 8 years ago | on: Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline
The way out is up.
thomasmarriott | 8 years ago | on: My new favorite book of all time
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." —Franklin Pierce Adams
thomasmarriott | 9 years ago | on: The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
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