It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected. Jon Evans Read Quote
Every time you log in to Facebook, every time you click on your News Feed, every time you Like a photo, every time you send anything via Messenger, you add another data point to the galaxy they already have regarding you and your behavior. Jon Evans Read Quote
I don’t mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he’s done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field. Jon Evans Read Quote
I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here weekly TechCrunch column; and I still find the time to work on my own software side projects. Jon Evans Read Quote
To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers – without any expectation of payback. Jon Evans Read Quote
It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil. Jon Evans Read Quote
A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity. Jon Evans Read Quote
I’m a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up. Jon Evans Read Quote
The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you’re a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner. Jon Evans Read Quote
In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences. Jon Evans Read Quote
