“Because we’ve reached the limits of moore’s law, the computers of the future will have many-core processors and all our programs will need to be written in a combination of haskell and lisp, that will itself be so powerful that the computers of the future will not be able to implement any of our ideas without creating time-travelling algorithms that borrow processing power from other computers that are further into the future. This sounds difficult, but in lisp it isn’t difficult at all. in haskell this is a built-in feature and the way you implement it is just a no-brainer to any one who knows lisp or haskell.

“If you regard someone judging you as a customer instead of a judge, the expectation of fairness goes away.

“Whatever you study, include history — but social and economic history, not political history. History seems to me so important that it’s misleading to treat it as a mere field of study. Another way to describe it is all the data we have so far.

“The only team we haven’t bowled out is Bangladesh and that was over 22 overs.

“moot –adjective
1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.

“..our closest game so far was probably against England.

“Focus on adapting to change rather than predicting the future.

“Rather than stay bound to long-term strategic visions, Twitter has made many adjustments to its product over the last several months..

“It takes but a flash of brilliance to think up a new feature, but hours or days or months of actual hard work to realize it. We need to prioritize what we’re going to do and when we’re going to do it. YAGNI is meant to help us prioritize.

“..augmentation (change behavior) instead of automation (ease of use).