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The Apple II really started the whole gaming industry, because it was the first time a computer had been built with sound, paddles, color, graphics—all the things for games. And it was really so that I could implement Breakout in software.

— Steve Wozniak, Founders at Work

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2010.02.02 Tuesday

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2010.01.10 Sunday

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I think one of the things that kills great things so often is compromise — letting people talk you out of what your gut is telling you. Not that I don’t value people’s input, but you have to have the strength to ignore it sometimes, too. If you feel really strongly, there might be something to that, and if you see something that other people don’t see, it could be because it’s that powerful and different. If everyone agrees, it’s probably because you’re not doing anything original.

— Evan Williams, Founders at Work

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2010.01.09 Saturday

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Perseverance is important because, in a startup, nothing goes according to plan. Founders live day to day with a sense of uncertainty, isolation, and sometimes lack of progress. Plus, startups, by their nature, are doing new things — and when you do new things, people often reject you.

— Founders at Work, Jessica Livingston

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2009.12.26 Saturday

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The second theme is concerned explicitly with technology. It is a law of life in the magic city that if you wish for anything you can have it. But with this law goes a special rule about machines. If anyone wishes for a piece of machinery, he is compelled to keep it and go on using it for the rest of his life.

— Disturbing the Universe, p.4

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2009.12.21 Monday

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There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have experienced catastrophic hard drive failure, and those who will experience catastrophic hard drive failure.

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2009.12.19 Saturday

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Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.

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So, it takes a long time to write a good program, but when it’s done, it’s done.

Make a ten year plan. Make sure you can survive for 10 years, because the software products that bring in a billion dollars a year all took that long.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

— Joel Spolsky

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2009.12.14 Monday

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Information survives by people copying it.

— John Baez, mathematical physicist

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2009.08.31 Monday

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The difference that makes no difference makes no difference.

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做沒有作用的事情, 是浪費時間.

千萬不要為勤力而勤力.

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— Translated by Me

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2009.08.30 Sunday

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墨子還是一個傑出的科學家，在力學、幾何學、代數學、光學等方面，都有重大貢獻，是當代諸子所望塵莫及。

戰國後期，分化為二支：一支注重認識論、邏輯學、幾何學、幾何光學、靜力學等學科的研究，是謂「墨家後學」，另一支則轉化為秦漢社會的游俠。

著作

現存《墨子》五十三篇，由墨子和各代門徒逐漸增補而成，是研究墨子和墨家學說的基本材料。其中的《經上》、《經下》、《經說上》、《經說下》、《大取》、《小取》等６篇，一般稱作《墨經》或《墨辯》，著重闡述認識論和邏輯學，在邏輯史上被稱為後期墨家邏輯或墨辯邏輯（古代世界三大邏輯體系之一，另兩個為古希臘的邏輯體系和佛教中的因明學）；其中還包含許多自然科學的內容，特別是天文學、幾何光學和靜力學。

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— 維基百科

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2009.07.22 Wednesday