“Experts say that too often for the underinsured, coverage can seem like health insurance in name only — adequate only as long as they have no medical problems.”
:NYTimes article on Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs
“There are two types of not getting sleep. There is not getting sleep because there is a lot of work. The other is because you can’t sleep. I had a little of both.”
:Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase after their acquisition of Bear Stearns
“Have you ever known people who have to turn on a TV or a radio the moment they enter a room, or can’t stand to do work without some sound on? These are people who are desperately afraid of confronting some truth about themselves, so they try to drown it out with constant distractions.”
–MetaFilter user Pastabagel
When all is said and done, the journey is the reward.
:Randy Komisar in his book The Monk and the Riddle
People stare at their computer’s all day long. I want to build a computer that not only looks back but uses the rich information in the eyes of the user to make the interface and the interaction smarter and more natural.
-sneaker (research motivation)
“The mind is a very fragile thing, and I strongly believe
that no stimulus and no words can go by without affecting a
person — I don’t claim to know more or less about what is
true or not, but I do believe in being pragmatic and using
ones own judgment and critical thinking to set the
boundaries for our actions.”
:sneaker, Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:44:19
Microsoft is so big that they create their own weather
:Mitch Stein in the Winograd/Norman Evolution of Ideas and Products class
Microsoft is not the 800-pound gorilla, they’re the whole zoo.
:Mitch Stein in the Winograd/Norman Evolution of Ideas and Products class