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Larry Page on how to change the world

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Re: Larry Page on how to change the world

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Post by brooksbp »

"Even when we started Google, we thought, "Oh, we might fail," and we almost didn't do it. The reason we started is that Stanford said, "You guys can come back and finish your Ph.D.s if you don't succeed.""

So true. Society has formed a horrible notion of stressing the importance of earning your degree(s) right after high school and in consecutive order.

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Post by jkent »

comatose_kid wrote: post #3

The sidebar on 'The Best Advice I Ever Got' makes for good reading too. Here's the link: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0804/gallery.bes...

Great link this one, a couple of red herrings in there.

Ford CEO (#25) saying "Focus on the customer. Deliver value.". Neither of which they are respected for.

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Post by gcheong »

I went to google's san francisco's open house a few months back where Vincent G. Serf (http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#vint) gave a talk and at one point he mentioned a list of engineering "grand challenges" put together by the National Academy of Engineering. It's an interesting list and may provide some good food for thought for anyone with a bit of free time on their hands:

http://engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenges.aspx

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Post by dangoldin »

The thing that struck me was the point about Moore's Law not being applicable to cars - which seems to go against his point of not believing in limits.

If we all expected cars to double their efficiency every 2 years maybe people would be working on that just like they are working hard to double the number of transistors every 2 years.

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