“Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get ...” — Steve Jurvetson Quote

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.'

The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.

No politician has a 50-year horizon.

The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process.

Derrick Rose - he's had his opportunity. He's been an MVP in the league. His efficiency isn't what it used to be.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

Efficiency is the golden word for me.

I love the efficiency of the Internet. If I come across something that I want to share right away, I can do it.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.