“There is some dissatisfaction with the manner in which Ganguly has made his runs in recent matches..

“..the real reason Excite went out of business? We couldn’t figure out how to make money from the long tail, the 97% of our traffic that was queries asked only once a day.

“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.