A new era is only a new state of mind
Its hard for companies to let go of their past successes
What makes a company successful with innovation long term is to always keep innovating. Often coming up with the next big thing means damaging the old thing. That’s hard to do for many companies so they don’t do it and somebody else does. This is why great companies end up as formerly-great companies.
The writing on the wall is clear
It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you.
It might be easy to say, “Don’t host on EC2 because things like this happen.” But there’s no such thing as perfect uptime.
I never thought of Donald Trump this way
Granted, many people are turned off by Trump’s pomposity. He knows that. But he also knows that success doesn’t come from bland acceptance by the entire world. It comes from the ability to inspire the few. He’s nailing that part. I just spent my morning writing about him.
Pasta recipes in a tastefully designed website
Scala sets a new standard against which future languages will be measured.
– Neal Gafter in foreword to Programming in Scala