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"You know what they do with engineers when they turn 40? They take them out back, and shoot them." - Primer
by nether 9y ago
"You know what they do with engineers when they turn 40? They take them out back, and shoot them." - Primer
- ronilan 9y agoThis reminds me of the off topic question I always had about YC - "if it is an incubator for fungus - is it valuable?"
- cyphar 9y ago"And there was value in the thing, clearly, that they were certain of. But what is the application? In a matter of hours, they had given it into everything from mass transit to satellite launching, imagining devices the size of jumbo jets. Everything would be cheaper. It was practical, and they knew it. But above all that, beyond the positives, they knew that the easiest way to be exploited is to sell something they did not yet understand." I've always been quite impressed by the writing in Primer. The dialogue is a massive departure from the clean world of Hollywood but it makes it feel far more frantic but also real.