"Groupthink: Fletcher took listservs mainstream with OneList, a company he founded in 1997. Users turned to OneList to create, administer, and find mailing lists through a simple Web-based interface. By 2000, when Yahoo! bought the company for $420 million to establish Yahoo! Groups, OneList had millions of subscribers and was sending out billions of emails per month"

"[Memo to Bill Gates:] "Bring it on." [A Microsoft newsreader would expand the market without hurting Bloglines]. They’re a program, we’re a service, like webmail. With us, you’ll be able to read your feeds from anywhere"

"This time, I’m trying to make new mistakes"

"I’m not great at CSS and, like many others, find that positioning elements on a web page can range from tedious at best to utterly frustrating at worst. Fortunately, ChatGPT-4 is pretty adept at stuff like this. I’m not saying it’s perfect every time, but usually, I can arrive at an answer after a few iterations."

"Ask Jeeves will be committing resources to Bloglines to help us build out our service even more and accelerate our product roadmap"

"I got to ride the bubble"

"Finally, I cannot talk about key factors of success without mentioning our economic model which is a mix between funding, mainly from international foundations and digital companies, and a business and development scheme."

"Whatever the software, the ultimate objective is to change the ways information flows, empowers people and helps them raise their voice."

"Indeed, new technologies could be considered as a bilateral way for local governments to engage with citizens, especially at the locality level."

"There is no doubt that Juliana Rotich has blazed a trail for other women techpreneurs to follow, not just in Africa, but around the world. She is an inspiration, creating a powerful platform that is capable of changing the way information flows in the world. Because of her vision, and the collaborative platform that is Ushahidi, Juliana is actively providing the tools that encourage citizens to fully participate in their economies, have their voices heard, and make the right decisions during disaster situations."

"These revolutions have not been evenly distributed across continents and nations… Never have been.” — Discussing the digital revolution and Africa’s place in it"

"I THINK THAT THERE IS AN IMMENSE"

"“I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!”"

"“i am guided each day by these three questions: ‘What are you fixing?’ ‘What are you making?’ and ‘Who are you helping?”"

"Ask yourself important questions about your business. Know the problem you’re trying to fix and its place in the African context. Also, understand what you’re doing and be intentional about your solution."

"When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them."

"Passion makes you approach a task with childlike pleasure and zeal - it ensures that you give it your all."

"And remember, your customers are an essential part of the equation. After all, they’re crucial to your success as an entrepreneur and the very reason you build."

"I think for girls it’s really important to show them that it is possible to dream big, and if your dreams include some nerdy creation, that’s fine."

"Moreover, nobody gave us independence. We tried, we fought, and we achieved. We achieved it not only at the cost of our will and devotion but also at the expense of the lives of many of our compatriots."

"Education opens the way to a new life and a new world. Be brave and confident. Open all doors through knowledge, open with your willpower and the impulse of your hearts, diligence, helping each other, trusting each other, learning from each other."

"Whatever political force you give preference to, and whatever your decision is, remember that it is a decision for the sake of the Homeland, for the sake of our state, for the sake of your future, and that of your family."

"I insist that we live in Armenia mixing the imagination and the reality. And this is one of the main reasons. We say ‘we have a good army’, but we do not in reality. We say we have IT, but we do not have it. We have Information system, but I do not know whether we have it or not, which would correspond to the 21st century."

"It does not matter to me that the behaviour of some political forces and parties has even been disrespectful because, as President, I leave their expressions aside and look at the situation that exists in our country today and those challenges and problems that we have today."

"The losers on the battlefield were not the soldier and his spirit, but the decision-making officials who were supposed to be ready for a possible war, properly organize and wage it."

"If you can find Newton in 1,000 and Einstein in 10,000, imagine how many talented people can you find in hundreds of millions? This new world is a world of innovation and start-ups."

"The independent statehood is the inviolability and unbargainability of our borders, our ability to make and implement decisions, our capability of ensuring security and dictating peace. We must not only be able to win but also understand in depth how to deal with that victory."

"Once we consider that true efficiency of a human, we start thinking in a different way. The technology we design has a lighter touch; it aims to aid our natural capacity for intelligence rather than replace it."

"The artist builds a framework, and the community fills it in."

"Security is like Tetris: Your successes disappear but your failures pile up."

"Adobe Reader is the worst piece of software I’ve seen, right after QuickTime."

"It is not a question of privacy against security. It's a question of freedom against control."

"The proliferation of internet-connected smart devices will be the IT asbestos of the future."

"Privacy is dead, and it was killed by the internet. This is what our generation will be remembered for."

"Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen."

"We are no longer securing computers - we are securing the society."

"Cyber weapons are effective, affordable and deniable. That’s a great combination in any weapon."

"If it's smart, it's vulnerable."

"You distribute for scale and you replicate for availability."

"A system which is strongly available means that it is not reliable because of the reliability you might need to take down the machines. On the other hands if you don't worry about the reliability of your data, as long as you've got a value which is not too old, you can go in and distribute it, and scale that way."

"Even if your program is highly parallel, your bottleneck will still be the virtual machine, because you still have schedulers, you still need to process and handle and schedule your different processes."

"All languages will have side effects. They will have some form of mutability. The whole goal is to try to decrease this mutability as much as possible."

"What you need to do is to make sure your threads become immutable. So you can change a data within a thread, but if you got two threads communicating with each other, you need to mimic this whole message passing approach. You need to copy the data from one threads to another, avoiding having shared state."

"What the Sunway TaihuLight, Raspberry Pi and Parallela board have in common? It is the heterogeneous multi-cores. So you have different types of cores, and that's the future of the computers we will working on today. The shift in multi-cores is inevitable."

"What is the point with OTP? First of all, you get much more less code […] Less bugs […] Much more solid and tested code. Much more deep learning curves […] Performances will be slightly impacted due to the layers."

"By learning them, and understanding their paradigms, and by programming in a functional way, you will end up being much more productive and you're becoming much better programmers."

"There is two ways basically to deal with concurrency. Mutable state, you must have shared memory, you must have threads, you must have mutexes when you access critical sections. If you are dealing with immutable state, what you do is processes will not share memory. The only way for them to share data is through a message passing that needs to copy the data from one process to another. They'll each have their own copy. So, two completely different paradigms, two completely different results."

"When you are writing a massively complex highly distributed system, you need more just than a language, Erlang is just a programming language. You need architectural patterns, you need to start thinking in term of how you distribute your system."