Portraits in silicon
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Read on Hacker NewsPortraits in Silicon: http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Silicon-Robert-Slater/dp/026... It has short bios of several computing pioneers.
Read on Hacker News…hem never ship. This is old news: Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. [Howard H. Aiken, as quoted in Portraits in Silicon (1987) by Robert Slater] [from wikiquote] Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. [Thomas Edison, spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932)] [from wikiquote] Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless. [Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html ] NDAs may have uses in established companies with very specific tr…
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