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From Neal Stephenson: YT: That's the problem with you hackers, you're always working. HT: No, that's what hackers _are_. Apologies if I've misquoted.
which book? I've never read any of his before
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From Neal Stephenson: YT: That's the problem with you hackers, you're always working. HT: No, that's what hackers _are_. Apologies if I've misquoted.
which book? I've never read any of his before
This eulogy claims a lawyer called Mona. But the biography, in chapter 20, claims it is Mona's mother, Joanne, who called:
""" [Joanne] had never told Mona that she had a brother, and that day she broke the news, or at least part of it, by telephone. "You have a brother, and he's wonderful, and he 's famoous, and I'm going to bring him to New York so you can meet him," she said. """
Beautiful eulogy. However either it, or Jobs' biography, is erroneous about who called Mona to let her know she had a brother. This eulogy claims a lawyer called Mona. But the biography, in chapter 20, claims it is Mona's mother, Joanne, who called: """ [Joanne] had never told Mona that she had a brother, and that day she broke the news, or at least part of it, by telephone. "You have a brother, and he's wonderful, a…
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which book? I've never read any of his before
YT was in Snow Crash and I think that HT should be HP: Hiro Protagonist. Although I don't remember that quote in the book.
"What the fuck do you want?"
"Y.T., I'm sorry about this. But something's going on. Something big time. I'm keeping one eye on a big biker named Raven."
"The problem with you hackers is you never stop working."
"That's what a hacker is," Hiro says.
"I'll keep an eye on this Raven guy, too," she says, "sometime when I am Then she hangs up.The ending takes my breath away.
I'm glad the stream of "Steve Jobs was an asshole/genius" articles is done. This one shows his real human side.
What distinguishes Jobs is he existed in layers from exceedingly public, second hand, apocryphal to private.
What I love about this is it feels like a balancing of that gradient.
"Oh Wow".
One can only wonder...