“Google’s earnings would have fallen by 18 cents per share had the first-quarter tax rate been 30 percent..

“Check the velocity. Is he not-perfect-but-getting-better? Or is he not-perfect-and-getting-bored?

“A startup is often trying to get customers in so many ways that it’s very easy to squeeze innovation out of the system and instead get focused exclusively on customer-driven development. You go from a company with a lot of great ideas and big visions, to a company with a year-long roadmap and no real sense of ‘I-came-up-with-this-great-idea-which-I-built-over-the-weekend’.. Innovation can get quickly lost once that startup is launched.

“Other than fundraising, nothing I do as an entrepreneur is as important as hiring.

“..eBay mostly hardly ever uses database transactions.

“6. If I completed all my degree requirements in a past semester but am not currently a student, will I be able to participate in Convocation?

A: Yes. All summer and fall graduates are invited to participate.

“Darwin was like a salesman who finds lots of little ways to get you to say yes before you’re asked to utter the big yes. He invited people to affirm things they already knew, about a topic much more familiar in their era than in ours: domestic species.

It only took a couple of years for Darwin to formulate the idea of evolution by natural selection. It took thirty years to frame that idea in a way that would convince other scientists and the general public.

“..computing’s central challenge, “How not to make a mess of it”, has not yet been met.

“We don’t recommend trying to escape a four-year commitment to the company (including time served). Four years is the typical commitment for a start up, high school, or college, as well as the span between Olympics and World Cups, and the term we give our Presidents to start as many wars as possible.

“Around 2:00, somebody came into the Show and Tell and said that we shouldn’t be making people register just to try the thing out. ..I stepped out for about 15 minutes and built the “Lemme In!” button. I pushed the build live and Things. Went. NUTS.