My Career At Microsoft Really

Elections, For Their Part, Are Typically Popularity Contests Rather Than Measures Of Candidates' Relative Competency Or Effectiveness. Imagine If Scientific Truth Were Determined According To Which Scientist Was Most Popular. To Be Successful, Scientists Would Have To Be Charismatic And Attractive - And Human Knowledge Would Suffer Terribly.

The Way Moore's Law Occurs In Computing Is Really Unprecedented In Other Walks Of Life. If The Boeing 747 Obeyed Moore's Law, It Would Travel A Million Miles An Hour, It Would Be Shrunken Down In Size, And A Trip To New York Would Cost About Five Dollars. Those Enormous Changes Just Aren't Part Of Our Everyday Experience.

Most Estimates Of The Mortality Risk Posed By Asteroid Impacts Put It At About The Same Risk As Flying In A Commercial Airliner. However, You Have To Remember That This Is Like The Entire Human Race Riding The Plane - It Is One Of The Few Risks That Really Could Wipe Us All Out.

In The Early Days Of The Software Industry, People Cared About Copyright And Didn't Give A Damn About Patents - They Copied Each Other Willy-nilly.

Economists Want Their Discipline To Be A Science, And They Have Nailed Down A Few Precepts, But Many Of Their Debates Are Still Clouded By Ideology.