I'm sure this is off topic, but as I was previewing the Hadoop book I saw this quote by the creator of Hadoop as to why he choose the name Hadoop: The name my

I'm sure this is off topic, but as I was previewing the Hadoop book I saw this quote by the creator of Hadoop as to why he choose the name Hadoop: The name my kid gave a stuffed yellow elephant. Short, relatively easy to spell and pronounce, meaningless, and not used elsewhere; those are my naming criteria. Kids are good at generating such. Googol is a kid's term. I just see a lot of startups having a hard time finding a decent name, so that seems like a nice piece of advice worth pointing out.