https://julienreszka.com/blog/quotes/ Quotes from Julien Reszka's blog posts en https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-contacts-all-know-each-other-that-s-the-problem/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-contacts-all-know-each-other-that-s-the-problem/quote.png Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:45:00 GMT "People whose networks bridge the structural holes between groups have an advantage in detecting and developing rewarding opportunities. They are able to see early, see more broadly, and translate information across groups." — Ronald Burt, sociologist, University of Chicago, on the mechanism behind network brokerage Source: Burt, R.S., Structural Holes and Good Ideas, American Journal of Sociology, 2004 https://julienreszka.com/blog/an-airport-sat-empty-for-1-1-million-a-day/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/an-airport-sat-empty-for-1-1-million-a-day/quote.png Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:20:00 GMT "It wasn't the technology per se, it was a misplaced faith in it." — Richard de Neufville, MIT professor of engineering systems who studied the failure, 2005 Source: Kirk Johnson, Denver Airport Saw the Future. It Didn't Work., The New York Times, August 27, 2005 https://julienreszka.com/blog/you-re-not-ready-to-compete-with-self-disruptive-companies/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/you-re-not-ready-to-compete-with-self-disruptive-companies/quote.png Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:35:00 GMT "I asked, "If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?" Gordon answered without hesitation, "He would get us out of memories."" — Andrew Grove, CEO of Intel, recounting his 1985 conversation with cofounder Gordon Moore Source: Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company, Doubleday, 1996 https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-key-to-success-isn-t-more-luck-or-hard-work/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-key-to-success-isn-t-more-luck-or-hard-work/quote.png Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:20:00 GMT "Your weak ties connect you to networks that are outside of your own circle. They give you information and ideas that you otherwise would not have gotten." — Mark Granovetter, Stanford sociologist behind the 1973 weak ties study, in a 2022 interview Source: Melissa De Witte, 50 years on, Mark Granovetter's The Strength of Weak Ties is stronger than ever, Stanford Report, July 24, 2023 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-lost-art-of-preparing-your-own-meals/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-lost-art-of-preparing-your-own-meals/quote.png Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:20:00 GMT "The proliferation and ubiquity of ultraprocessed foods on grocery store shelves is changing what we are eating when we make meals at home." — Julia Wolfson, associate professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, lead author of the cited study Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health press release, Ultraprocessed Foods Account for More than Half of Calories Consumed at Home, December 10, 2024 https://julienreszka.com/blog/we-got-better-at-keeping-you-alive-not-at-keeping-healthy/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/we-got-better-at-keeping-you-alive-not-at-keeping-healthy/quote.png Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:05:00 GMT "At the same time that persons suffering from chronic diseases are getting an extension of life, they are also getting an extension of disease and disability." — Ernest Gruenberg, epidemiologist, predicting the pattern in 1977, decades before global data confirmed it Source: Ernest M. Gruenberg, The Failures of Success, Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Health and Society, Winter 1977 https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-pension-depends-on-kids-you-did-not-have/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-pension-depends-on-kids-you-did-not-have/quote.png Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:10:00 GMT "The current legal framework governing public social care insurance results in a disadvantage to parents that have more than one child." — Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, First Senate, ruling a flat childless surcharge still was not enough, 2022 Source: Bundesverfassungsgericht, Press Release No. 46/2022, Order of 7 April 2022, 1 BvL 3/18 et al. https://julienreszka.com/blog/pensions-buy-fewer-babies-cutting-them-costs-votes/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/pensions-buy-fewer-babies-cutting-them-costs-votes/quote.png Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:20:00 GMT "Our empirical analysis identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility." — Francesco Billari and Vincenzo Galasso, economists, on their Italian pension reform natural experiment, 2009 Source: Billari, F.C. & Galasso, V., What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms, CESifo Working Paper No. 2646, 2009 https://julienreszka.com/blog/ruling-is-a-skill-voting-for-it-is-a-joke/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/ruling-is-a-skill-voting-for-it-is-a-joke/quote.png Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:15:00 GMT "Voters in pain are not necessarily irrational, but they are ignorant about both science and politics, and that makes them gullible when ambitious demagogues seek to profit from their misery." — Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, political scientists, whose findings were later incorporated into their book Democracy for Realists Source: Achen, C.H. and Bartels, L.M., Blind Retrospection: Electoral Responses to Drought, Flu, and Shark Attacks, Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, June 2004 https://julienreszka.com/blog/difficult-conversations-don-t-need-to-be-messy/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/difficult-conversations-don-t-need-to-be-messy/quote.png Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:23:00 GMT "Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people." — Elizabeth Loftus, psychologist and memory researcher Source: Elizabeth Loftus, How reliable is your memory?, TEDGlobal, June 2013 https://julienreszka.com/blog/bend-under-pressure-not-under-nonsense/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/bend-under-pressure-not-under-nonsense/quote.png Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:15:00 GMT "That we have found the tendency to conformity in our society so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern." — Solomon Asch, psychologist, from the conclusion of his classic conformity study Source: Asch, S.E., Opinions and Social Pressure, Scientific American, 1955 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-more-power-you-hold-the-more-you-owe/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-more-power-you-hold-the-more-you-owe/quote.png Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:33:00 GMT "I share your view that a swift convening of experts in a confidence inspiring framework (WHO seems really the only option) is needed, or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony." — Francis Collins, then Director of the National Institutes of Health, in a February 2, 2020 email to Jeremy Farrar and Anthony Fauci Source: Francis Collins email, February 2, 2020, reproduced in House Committee on Oversight and Reform correspondence, 2022 https://julienreszka.com/blog/rss-is-back-ai-agents-are-reading-it/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/rss-is-back-ai-agents-are-reading-it/quote.png Sat, 30 May 2026 19:07:00 GMT "The engine underneath it all is still there. The heart is still beating. The feeds are still feeding." — Dave Winer, RSS pioneer, on his blog Scripting News Source: Dave Winer, RSS on the desktop, 15 years later, scripting.com, March 30, 2017 https://julienreszka.com/blog/structure-is-what-makes-an-interview-actually-work/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/structure-is-what-makes-an-interview-actually-work/quote.png Fri, 29 May 2026 16:47:00 GMT "While structured interviews fared well in prior work, they do emerge in the present work as the strongest predictor of job performance." — Paul Sackett, Charlene Zhang, Christopher Berry and Filip Lievens, from their 2022 reanalysis of personnel selection meta-analyses Source: Sackett, Zhang, Berry & Lievens, Revisiting Meta-Analytic Estimates of Validity in Personnel Selection, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 107, No. 11, 2022 https://julienreszka.com/blog/they-re-required-to-tell-you-how-to-beat-them/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/they-re-required-to-tell-you-how-to-beat-them/quote.png Wed, 27 May 2026 12:17:00 GMT "The very decision-making and resource-allocation processes that are key to the success of established companies are the very processes that reject disruptive technologies." — Clayton Christensen, explaining why well-run incumbents miss the threats they themselves disclose Source: Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Harvard Business School Press, 1997 https://julienreszka.com/blog/know-when-to-stop-pivot-or-double-down/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/know-when-to-stop-pivot-or-double-down/quote.png Tue, 26 May 2026 21:42:00 GMT "No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers." — Steve Blank, Rule No. 5, a paraphrase of Helmuth von Moltke's military maxim applied to startups Source: Steve Blank, The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company, 2012 https://julienreszka.com/blog/stop-start-continue-is-a-brainstorm-not-a-retrospective/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/stop-start-continue-is-a-brainstorm-not-a-retrospective/quote.png Mon, 25 May 2026 20:17:00 GMT "Generally, brainstorming groups are significantly less productive than nominal groups, in terms of both quantity and quality." — Brian Mullen, Craig Johnson and Eduardo Salas, from the abstract of their meta-analysis on brainstorming productivity Source: Mullen, Johnson & Salas, Productivity Loss in Brainstorming Groups: A Meta-Analytic Integration, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991 https://julienreszka.com/blog/solve-a-problem-people-admit-they-have/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/solve-a-problem-people-admit-they-have/quote.png Sat, 23 May 2026 14:31:00 GMT "Because behavior is public and thoughts are private." — Jonah Berger, explaining why people underestimate how many others share their private doubts Source: Jonah Berger, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Simon & Schuster, 2013 https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-product-should-make-the-buyer-look-good/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-product-should-make-the-buyer-look-good/quote.png Tue, 19 May 2026 09:47:00 GMT "People share things that make them look good to others." — Jonah Berger, on social currency as a driver of word of mouth Source: Jonah Berger, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Simon & Schuster, 2013 https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-the-referral-into-the-product/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-the-referral-into-the-product/quote.png Fri, 15 May 2026 07:33:00 GMT "Cost per acquisition: $233 to $388. For a $99 product. Fail." — Drew Houston, on Dropbox's paid acquisition economics before the referral program launched Source: Drew Houston, Startup Lessons Learned conference presentation on Dropbox's growth, 2010 https://julienreszka.com/blog/if-you-can-t-describe-it-no-one-will-share-it/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/if-you-can-t-describe-it-no-one-will-share-it/quote.png Mon, 11 May 2026 13:12:00 GMT "The span of absolute judgment and the span of immediate memory impose severe limitations on the amount of information that we are able to receive, process, and remember." — George Miller, psychologist, Harvard University Source: Miller, G.A., The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, Psychological Review, Vol. 63, No. 2, 1956 https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-product-should-be-safe-to-recommend/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-product-should-be-safe-to-recommend/quote.png Thu, 07 May 2026 08:54:00 GMT "83 percent of consumers worldwide consider recommendations from friends and acquaintances to be the most credible form of advertising." — Nielsen, Global Trust in Advertising report Source: Nielsen, Global Trust in Advertising, 2015 https://julienreszka.com/blog/sticky-products-feel-personal/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/sticky-products-feel-personal/quote.png Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:00 GMT "We have adapted our personalization algorithms to this new scenario in such a way that now 75% of what people watch is from some sort of recommendation." — Xavier Amatriain and Justin Basilico, Netflix Personalization Science and Engineering team Source: Netflix Technology Blog, Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars (Part 1), April 2012 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-cheapest-feature-is-the-one-you-don-t-build/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-cheapest-feature-is-the-one-you-don-t-build/quote.png Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:15:00 GMT "A big problem was project bloat, causing projects to go over time, over budget, and creating features and functions not required." — Jim Johnson, Chairman, The Standish Group Source: InfoQ interview with Jim Johnson of the Standish Group, August 25, 2006 https://julienreszka.com/blog/anxiety-is-making-you-dumber/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/anxiety-is-making-you-dumber/quote.png Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:03:00 GMT "Physical activity should be a mainstay approach in the management of depression, anxiety and psychological distress." — Ben Singh, lead author of a 97-review umbrella meta-analysis on physical activity and mental health Source: Singh, B. et al., Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress, British Journal of Sports Medicine, Vol. 57, No. 18, 2023 https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-sleep-schedule-is-a-policy-document/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-sleep-schedule-is-a-policy-document/quote.png Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:17:00 GMT "After 17-19 hours without sleep, corresponding to 2230 and 0100, performance on some tests was equivalent or worse than that at a BAC of 0.05%." — Ann Williamson and Anne-Marie Feyer, researchers on sleep deprivation and performance Source: Williamson, A.M. and Feyer, A.M., Moderate sleep deprivation produces impairments in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to legally prescribed levels of alcohol intoxication, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 57, No. 10, 2000 https://julienreszka.com/blog/less-work-more-worry/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/less-work-more-worry/quote.png Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:42:00 GMT "Forty-four percent of employees worldwide say they are stressed, maintaining a record high set in 2021, according to Gallup's latest research." — Gallup, from a 2023 workplace stress report Source: Gallup, Help Your Employees Cope With Stress, August 23, 2023, citing the State of the Global Workplace 2023 report https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-better-the-autopilot-the-worse-the-pilot/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-better-the-autopilot-the-worse-the-pilot/quote.png Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:09:00 GMT "Automation complacency is found in both naive and expert participants and cannot be overcome with simple practice." — Raja Parasuraman and Dietrich Manzey, human factors researchers Source: Parasuraman, R. and Manzey, D.H., Complacency and Bias in Human Use of Automation: An Attentional Integration, Human Factors, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2010 https://julienreszka.com/blog/automation-takes-the-easy-jobs-and-leaves-you-the-hard-ones/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/automation-takes-the-easy-jobs-and-leaves-you-the-hard-ones/quote.png Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:31:00 GMT "While less than 5 percent of all occupations can be automated entirely using demonstrated technologies, about 60 percent of all occupations have at least 30 percent of constituent activities that could be automated." — McKinsey Global Institute, research arm of McKinsey and Company Source: McKinsey Global Institute, A Future That Works: Automation, Employment, and Productivity, January 2017 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-future-of-work-is-getting-out-of-the-way/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-future-of-work-is-getting-out-of-the-way/quote.png Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:23:00 GMT "It can never be ethically acceptable that people are killed or seriously injured when moving within the road transport system." — Claes Tingvall, Director of Traffic Safety, Swedish National Road Administration, architect of Vision Zero Source: Tingvall, C. and Haworth, N., Vision Zero: An Ethical Approach to Safety and Mobility, 6th ITE International Conference Road Safety and Traffic Enforcement, September 1999 https://julienreszka.com/blog/robots-create-more-jobs-than-they-kill/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/robots-create-more-jobs-than-they-kill/quote.png Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:47:00 GMT "While we find no significant effect of industrial robots on overall employment, there is some evidence that they crowd out employment of low-skilled and, to a lesser extent, middle-skilled workers." — Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, economists, in the first large-scale empirical study of industrial robots' economic effects Source: Graetz, G. and Michaels, G., Robots at Work, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No. 1335, London School of Economics, March 2015 https://julienreszka.com/blog/google-has-no-idea-if-your-page-is-good/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/google-has-no-idea-if-your-page-is-good/quote.png Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:38:00 GMT "These maps allow rapid calculation of a Web page's PageRank, an objective measure of its citation importance that corresponds well with people's subjective idea of importance." — Sergey Brin and Larry Page, from the founding Google paper introducing PageRank Source: Brin, S. and Page, L., The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 30, 1998 https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-with-what-s-already-there/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-with-what-s-already-there/quote.png Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:23:00 GMT "In 2007, Joe and I were roommates in San Francisco, and we were trying to figure out how to pay our rent. That weekend, a design conference was coming to San Francisco and hotels were sold out, so we inflated three airbeds and turned our apartment into an Airbed & Breakfast." — Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO, Airbnb Source: Chesky, B., Gebbia, J., and Blecharczyk, N., Letter from Our Founders, Airbnb Form S-1 Registration Statement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, November 16, 2020 https://julienreszka.com/blog/napkin-sketches-beat-gantt-charts/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/napkin-sketches-beat-gantt-charts/quote.png Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:05:00 GMT "In retrospect it is clear that without all-up testing the first manned lunar landing could not have taken place as early as 1969." — Wernher von Braun, on George Mueller's all-up testing decision, which von Braun had originally opposed Source: von Braun, W., Saturn the Giant, in Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, NASA SP-350, 1975 https://julienreszka.com/blog/demand-forecasts-the-best-you-can-do-is-guess/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/demand-forecasts-the-best-you-can-do-is-guess/quote.png Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:20:00 GMT "It will appear that a measurable uncertainty, or risk proper, as we shall use the term, is so far different from an unmeasurable one that it is not in effect an uncertainty at all." — Frank Knight, economist, defining the risk versus uncertainty distinction Source: Knight, F.H., Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit, Houghton Mifflin, 1921 https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-for-what-won-t-change/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-for-what-won-t-change/quote.png Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:17:00 GMT "In our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection." — Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon Source: Jeff Bezos, The Institutional Yes, Harvard Business Review interview, October 2007 https://julienreszka.com/blog/delete-it-before-you-optimize-it/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/delete-it-before-you-optimize-it/quote.png Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:44:00 GMT "Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn't delete enough." — Elon Musk, step two of Musk's five-step design algorithm Source: Elon Musk, quoted in Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Simon & Schuster, September 2023 https://julienreszka.com/blog/what-actually-works-for-dating-in-2026/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/what-actually-works-for-dating-in-2026/quote.png Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:30:00 GMT "Online dating services obviously shouldn't be using romance scammers as a way to fatten their bottom line." — Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, announcing the 2019 lawsuit against Match Group Source: Federal Trade Commission press release, FTC Sues Owner of Online Dating Service Match.com, September 25, 2019 https://julienreszka.com/blog/webmcp-is-the-new-mobile-first/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/webmcp-is-the-new-mobile-first/quote.png Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:17:00 GMT "It provides a universal, open standard for connecting AI systems with data sources, replacing fragmented integrations with a single protocol." — Anthropic, from the announcement introducing the Model Context Protocol Source: Introducing the Model Context Protocol, Anthropic, November 25, 2024 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-only-policy-tool-that-cannot-be-gamed/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-only-policy-tool-that-cannot-be-gamed/quote.png Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:22:00 GMT "A club is a voluntary group deriving mutual benefits from sharing the costs of producing an activity that has public-good characteristics." — William Nordhaus, 2018 Nobel laureate in Economics, defining the club mechanism Source: Nordhaus, W., Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International Climate Policy, American Economic Review, Vol. 105, No. 4, April 2015 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-web-is-not-a-safe-harbor-from-platform-control/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-web-is-not-a-safe-harbor-from-platform-control/quote.png Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:45:00 GMT "By hook or by crook, Apple's going to maintain its home screen advantage." — Alex Russell, browser engineer and open web advocate, on Apple's 2024 removal of PWA capabilities for EU users Source: Alex Russell, Home Screen Advantage, Infrequently Noted, February 16, 2024 https://julienreszka.com/blog/who-decided-europe-needed-replacing/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/who-decided-europe-needed-replacing/quote.png Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:15:00 GMT "For demographic reasons, the population of working age in the European Union will decrease by 1 million per year. That means that legal migration should grow by more or less 1 million per year." — Ylva Johansson, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Source: Associated Press, reporting Johansson's remarks during an official visit to Greece, January 8, 2024 https://julienreszka.com/blog/ai-will-soon-generate-video-as-easily-as-images/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/ai-will-soon-generate-video-as-easily-as-images/quote.png Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:08:00 GMT "We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models." — Prafulla Dhariwal and Alex Nichol, OpenAI researchers, opening line of the paper establishing diffusion models beat GANs Source: Dhariwal, P. and Nichol, A., Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis, arXiv:2105.05233, 2021 https://julienreszka.com/blog/when-everyone-around-you-goes-mad-stay-normal/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/when-everyone-around-you-goes-mad-stay-normal/quote.png Tue, 04 May 2021 17:45:00 GMT "He put them all into the window simply because it has been done that way for years, because everyone does it, and because that is the way it has to be." — Vaclav Havel, Czech dissident and playwright, describing the greengrocer who displays a Party slogan out of habit and fear, not belief Source: Havel, V., The Power of the Powerless, section III, October 1978 https://julienreszka.com/blog/mixture-of-experts-routing-was-called-a-stupid-idea/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/mixture-of-experts-routing-was-called-a-stupid-idea/quote.png Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:47:00 GMT "We finally realize the promise of conditional computation, achieving greater than 1000x improvements in model capacity with only minor losses in computational efficiency." — Noam Shazeer, lead author, on sparsely gated Mixture of Experts layers Source: Shazeer, N. et al., Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer, arXiv:1701.06538, 2017 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-wright-brothers-didn-t-learn-by-crashing/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-wright-brothers-didn-t-learn-by-crashing/quote.png Sun, 29 Sep 2019 08:17:00 GMT "I am now absolutely certain that Lilienthal's table is very seriously in error." — Wilbur Wright, writing to Octave Chanute after the Wrights' 1901 wind tunnel tests exposed errors in the standard lift tables Source: Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute, letter dated October 6, 1901, Library of Congress Manuscript Division https://julienreszka.com/blog/love-score-was-banned-for-reading-sms-metadata-on-device/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/love-score-was-banned-for-reading-sms-metadata-on-device/quote.png Fri, 24 May 2019 08:15:00 GMT "Only an app that has been selected as a user's default app for making calls or text messages will be able to access call logs and SMS, respectively." — Paul Bankhead, Director of Product Management, Google Play, announcing the policy behind Love Score's removal Source: Bankhead, P., Providing a safe and secure experience for our users, Android Developers Blog, Google, October 8, 2018 https://julienreszka.com/blog/intelligence-as-a-nine-node-cycle-of-interpretation/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/intelligence-as-a-nine-node-cycle-of-interpretation/quote.png Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:33:00 GMT "Feedback is the control of a system by reinserting into the system the results of its performance." — Norbert Wiener, mathematician and founder of cybernetics, defining feedback Source: Wiener, N., The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, Houghton Mifflin, 1950 https://julienreszka.com/blog/information-has-six-imperfections-and-none-can-be-eliminated/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/information-has-six-imperfections-and-none-can-be-eliminated/quote.png Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:47:00 GMT "Nature takes payment by requiring just that much uncertainty, so that we are not actually getting any more than C through correctly." — Claude Shannon, from the proof of the noisy channel coding theorem Source: Shannon, C., A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 27, 1948 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-three-sovereignties-of-interpretive-power/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-three-sovereignties-of-interpretive-power/quote.png Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:22:00 GMT "And hence also obeying a rule is a practice. And to think one is obeying a rule is not to obey a rule." — Ludwig Wittgenstein, from the rule-following discussion in Philosophical Investigations Source: Wittgenstein, L., Philosophical Investigations, translated by G.E.M. Anscombe, Blackwell, 1953, section 202 https://julienreszka.com/blog/grounding-is-a-governance-problem-not-a-data-problem/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/grounding-is-a-governance-problem-not-a-data-problem/quote.png Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:33:00 GMT "How can the semantic interpretation of a formal symbol system be made intrinsic to the system, rather than just parasitic on the meanings in our heads?" — Stevan Harnad, opening statement defining the symbol grounding problem Source: Harnad, S., The Symbol Grounding Problem, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Vol. 42, 1990 https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-got-into-42-paris/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-got-into-42-paris/quote.png Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:46:00 GMT "You can type anything into Google, and there's your answer. So lessons are useless, you'll find the best lectures in the world on the internet, if you want to learn." — Xavier Niel, founder of 42, on why the school has no teachers Source: Xavier Niel, interview with VentureBeat, Xavier Niel explains 42: the coding university without teachers, books, or tuition, June 16, 2016 https://julienreszka.com/blog/translating-a-book-is-the-best-way-to-learn-it/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/translating-a-book-is-the-best-way-to-learn-it/quote.png Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:14:00 GMT "Repeated studying after learning had no effect on delayed recall, but repeated testing produced a large positive effect." — Jeffrey Karpicke and Henry Roediger, cognitive psychologists, on the testing effect for learning Source: Karpicke, J.D. and Roediger, H.L., The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning, Science, Vol. 319, February 2008 https://julienreszka.com/blog/is-mass-immigration-a-moral-obligation-v4-says-no/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/is-mass-immigration-a-moral-obligation-v4-says-no/quote.png Sat, 05 Sep 2015 09:30:00 GMT "Any proposal leading to introduction of mandatory and permanent quota for solidarity measures would be unacceptable." — Visegrad Group, joint statement of the heads of government of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia Source: Joint Statement of the Heads of Governments of the Visegrad Group Countries, Prague, September 4, 2015 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-gan-paper-turned-me-toward-generative-design/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-gan-paper-turned-me-toward-generative-design/quote.png Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:33:00 GMT "The generative model can be thought of as analogous to a team of counterfeiters, trying to produce fake currency and use it without detection, while the discriminative model is analogous to the police, trying to detect the counterfeit currency." — Ian Goodfellow, lead author, on the core analogy behind Generative Adversarial Networks Source: Goodfellow, I. et al., Generative Adversarial Networks, arXiv:1406.2661, June 2014 (NeurIPS 2014) https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-upcoming-war-in-eastern-europe/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-upcoming-war-in-eastern-europe/quote.png Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:20:00 GMT "It's all nonsense, there are no Russian units, special forces or instructors in the east of Ukraine." — Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, live televised Q&A, weeks before the Normandy summit Source: Vladimir Putin, Direct Line televised Q&A, April 17, 2014, as reported by Al Jazeera https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-am-going-to-study-geopolitics-of-central-europe/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-am-going-to-study-geopolitics-of-central-europe/quote.png Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:45:00 GMT "Every explosion of social forces, instead of being dissipated in a surrounding circuit of unknown space and barbaric chaos, will be sharply re-echoed from the far side of the globe..." — Halford Mackinder, British geographer, founder of geopolitics as a discipline, 1904 Source: Mackinder, H.J., The Geographical Pivot of History, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, April 1904 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-revolution-will-be-tweeted/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-revolution-will-be-tweeted/quote.png Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:33:00 GMT "They work in favor of freedom of expression by making it easier for us to express ourselves, but at the same time they also tend to work in favor of surveillance by making more of our private information public." — Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion, on social networking tools Source: Morozov, E., Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 22, No. 2, April 2011, p. 63 https://julienreszka.com/blog/wait-leonardo-da-vinci-was-real/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/wait-leonardo-da-vinci-was-real/quote.png Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:22:00 GMT "Remember that your flying machine must imitate no other than the bat, because the web is what by its union gives the armour, or strength to the wings." — Leonardo da Vinci, notebook entry, circa 1487 to 1490, on designing a flying machine Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Vol. 2, translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1883, section On Flying Machines, passage 1123