About ten other young, male undergraduates regularly attended these sessions of midnight programming. It was a whole subculture. It’s been popularized now, but it was a secret cult in my days, said Al...
You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the...
When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm. I always loved computers. All of a sudden I just didn’t care. It was, all of a sudden, a job.
When others write about people who live on the edge, who challenge their comfortable lives—and it has happened to me—they usually do it in a way that allows a reader a way out. You could render genero...
Because if you’re going to make a small inexpensive computer you have to sell a lot of them to make a lot of money. And we intend to make a lot of money.
To understand Russia, to understand Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Boston, identity politics, Sri Lanka, and Life Savers, you have to be on top of this hill, he announced in a light tone as we studied...
People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be. - Paul Farmer
I think that the rich can always call themselves democratic, but the sick people are not among the rich. I thought he was done, but he was only pausing for the interpreter to catch up. Look, I’m very...
Executives might make the final decisions about what would be produced, but engineers would provide most of the ideas for new products. After all, engineers were the people who really knew the state o...
If disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, then epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life.
And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to...