Jay Marcyes

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Mahatma Gandhi. #quote

This is the overall theme of the post:

There is an oft-repeated meme with startups around how it is staffed with commandos, infantry, or police. Commandos are the founders -- they go in guns blazing and destroy everything they see. But there aren't enough commandos, and when the front is breached, they make way for the infantry. They actually score the victory, building up upon the success of the commandos. Most mid-stage startups are waging battle at this level. And then... the police come in. They're bumbling, but the market is already owned, so they can eat donuts and get fat.

And this is another quote I really liked:

Their job is to do lots of damage with surprise and teamwork, establishing a beachhead before the enemy is even aware that they exist. Ideally, they do this by building the prototype of a product that is so creative, so exactly correct for its purpose that by its very existence it leads to the destruction of other products. They make creativity a destructive act.

J. K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard commencement speech, my favorite #quote (quote is on failure) http://bit.ly/2vJJq

The best quotes comes from part 1, about 8:30 in, on failure:

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged, I was set free. I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. [...] Some failure in life is inevitable, It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you lived so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case, you fail by default.

The money quote:

I just kind of want to throw up my hands (or in my hands) and call out this character, this persona, this online half-person for what it is: bad for the Internet, bad for gay people, bad for the world. I can’t help but feel like everything would be better off without him… I racked my brain and I’ve still come up with absolutely nothing positive or pro-social that he has brought to the world.

"It's true. People [...] have gone and scrawled a bunch of random code graffiti all over the damn internet." http://is.gd/BAhH haha #quote

Dee's #quote of the day, "the great thing about the future is we all reach it at the same time."