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"A brainiac who works in the lab walks into Page’s office one day wielding his latest world-changing invention—a time machine. As the scientist reaches for the
by wmeredith 12y ago
"A brainiac who works in the lab walks into Page’s office one day wielding his latest world-changing invention—a time machine. As the scientist reaches for the power cord to begin a demo, Page fires off a dismissive question: “Why do you need to plug it in?”
It’s a tall tale that is repeated affectionately by the whizzes inside the futuristic lab because it captures the urgency and aspiration of their boss to move technology forward."
Is this really repeated affectionately? (If at all.) That sounds like a bug, not a feature.
- mahyarm 12y agoIt sounds like the typical strategy of just asking for something more when it's presented to you, to get more results. It's easier to ask than to make.
- corysama 12y agoThe joke was probably intended as a jab at unreasonable managers, but joke-Page did catch an important engineering flaw: After you use the wall-socket-powered time machine to travel through time, there is likely to not be a wall socket at your destination...
- Ygg2 12y agoDepends on what principles the machine works. Realistically, it transfers information several milliseconds from future into present. Socket present. Unrealistically, it can only travel couple of years into the future/past. Socket present. Unbelievably realistically, it can travel hundreds or decades of years into the future/past. ???
- Igglyboo 12y agoExtremely realistically, it transfers information from the present to the future in realtime.
- mkm416 12y agoThe joke is that it's a time machine. Someone brings a working one of those to office and I wouldn't care if it's powered by a butter churn.
- bronson 12y agoYou'll care if it's powered by something with a little more kick, like plutonium.
- daniel-cussen 12y agoI think it being a time machine trumps its being powered by plutonium: go to future for cure to cancer, come back, and just like that, the plutonium is irrelevant.
- trhway 12y agothe joke is why you're still depending on some manager's opinion, bringing it to his office (for what? for demo? for approval?) when you have invented time machine.
- waterlesscloud 12y agoJust go back and in time and invent Google yourself, then you're the boss when you walk in with the time machine!