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Perhaps you are remembering the famous quote from Jeffrey Hammerbacher[1] who left Facebook to found Cloudera[2]: “The best minds of my generation are thinking
by scardine 9y ago
Perhaps you are remembering the famous quote from Jeffrey Hammerbacher[1] who left Facebook to found Cloudera[2]: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" (at a Business Week interview in 2011 [3]).
The quote is a parody on another famous quote from the opening lines of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl":
> I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
> dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
> Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hammerbacher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hammerbacher
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudera
[3] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:26KzMa2hCfIJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-14/this-tech-bubble-is-different+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=br https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:26KzMa...
- anpat 9y agoI always had this feeling of having heard similar quote to Jeffrey's quote. Now I know exactly where.