In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes computer development early
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity. Pierre Omidyar bearcapableequal Change image and share on social
A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things. Pierre Omidyar aheadlotpeople Change image and share on social
Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way. Pierre Omidyar changeengagemake share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life. Ishmael Beah begincivilearly Change image and share on social
And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right. Alan Shepard basicallybusinesscope share on social