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Ulevitch: Commercializing nuclear energy involves minimal underlying scientific risk
“There's no scientific risk. Like, with nuclear energy, that's another important thing, is we invest in all kinds of things. There's no scientific risk with nuclear energy or minimal, like, we know how it works. The science has understood.”
Ulevitch: Defense Hardware Allows Better Inventory Management Than Consumer Hardware
“When you do government hardware or hardware for the Pentagon or across enterprises, it's a much different sales cycle and process. You can better manage your inventory and your pacing and your hardware spend.”
Ulevitch defines low-latency communication as instant human-to-computer instruction
“This is, to me, really simply the art of communicating an idea in your head as quickly as possible into the computer as an instruction.”
Ulevitch: Developers automate repetitive tasks due to constructive laziness
“I will say that I think developers are unfailingly the laziest people I know. And I say that as a compliment. Anytime they have to do work that has to be done over and over again, or they have to use a component that they think they might reuse again in the fu…”
Ulevitch: Software market is shifting toward tools empowering users' highest potential
“I think we're in a major transition in the market where people want software that really appeals to their highest and best use, and not just like the lowest common denominator.”
Ulevitch: Speech and brain-computer interfaces are fundamentally command lines
“But all of those kinds of new features coming out, they essentially turn something into a command line. They translate your speech or your thought into a command line. So the sooner that we embrace and adopt command line interfaces, the sooner we'll be ready t…”
Ulevitch: Treating org structure as code unlocks better growth planning
“Really, by treating the organization as code and leveraging these developer paradigms, you're able to answer these questions that organizations today that are trying to be more thoughtful about their planning and their growth are asking.”