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“DeepSeq, I think is, was the number I saw this morning is like 35% of the DAUs of open AI.”

“And on a quarterly basis, Apple sells about the same number of, Apple sells the same number of devices as their RPCs sold.”

“Fast forward this, 1218 months, and you could see the reviews and the columns, and it's going to be the Samsung VR kit, the Xiaomi VR kit, and just like 12 different ones that are like the same but different, and people are going to evaluate those, and then th…”

“And I, last I checked, there are way more lawyers today than there were 30 years ago, and they all are, every human lawyer you talk to is a computerized lawyer.”

“Like there's only two truisms about corporate M&A. One is it literally, it, you provably a net destroyer of value.”

“They sell more iPads, you know, than the laptop run rate in the US.”

“The Clinton administration had really pushed for China to come in, and it actually split the Democratic Party. People today, their heads would explode if you tried this out, and it turns out the Republicans were split too. Yeah. Because half the Republicans we…”

“And they were doing this amazing research that basically was pointing out that how people use technology was very much a social interaction and that people assigned personalities and interacted with technology in ways that were surprising, but in ways that tha…”

“So like today, we all say thank you to Siri and Alexa, not even thinking about it. Well, they showed that, they demonstrated that, 25 years ago. That it was, that was what was going to happen, and it was just sort of the way that people do that.”

“Steve Wallstrom from Business Week was like, I was skeptical, but I really liked it a lot. And Peter Coffey at PC Week. Those would be the two mainstream and tech review. Peter Coffey was like, this is a great idea. Like, this makes it easier to use. Yeah. Lik…”

“And so one thing that's super interesting, just out of the gate, is Apple has three hundred and sixty million or so subscribers worldwide. That's a sort of a vanity number because it includes subscriptions to apps in the App Store, but because Apple gets a cut…”

“As vague as the GDPR might appear to an engineer in some places, it got very specific very quickly on penalties.”

“And if you just use the stock price measure, which obviously has all the other variables associated with it, but it actually, IBM beat the S&P 500 by seven X over that 20 year timeframe on the back of a dead mainframe.”

“Intel has very, you know, has announced, like, they're not even focused on PC chips. Like that it's about the data center, and it's about IoT and VR and a bunch of stuff, but not, not like core i-seven, the next generation.”

“Well, we know there are amino acids and we know that they have to be in three dimensions, but actually nobody else knows that there's no codified rules. Like nobody has the rules of protein folding.”

“Along comes Google, and they basically pioneered this whole notion that, like, all the disk drives, it's not like they're likely to fail, it's that they will fail. And so it was designing a whole system on the presumption of continuous failure, which was like …”

“The Outlook that got updated today that's on my iPad, like, has connections to Facebook events and Evernote, which aren't things that exist in the Outlook that I would use on my Windows desktop.”

“And that's an important point about just innovation in general, which is there will be massive innovation, and in fact, I fully expect to see pure deep learning approaches to translation, to image recognition, which is, you know, internet already is that, but …”

“The one thing I will say that's going to be magical is how Apple Like, evolves, their historic way of doing things has been to tether them, and then untether them over time, and so what I think is going to be interesting to see is if they can untether the watc…”

“It leads to this unbelievable waste, and waste in a data center is, is a big mess. 85% of the resources go unused”

“Most everybody is going to just use about seven apps on their phone. And the same holds for PCs.”

“One of these eyeopening experiences I had was to find out at one point in the nineties that Excel was the preferred word processor in Japan because the documents in Japan are all highly structured.”

“Plus we could only have like, you know, 30 different little animations, like types of things like here's waving or smiling or looking, thinking or whatever. And each one can only have a few frames. Right. Because we had to fit on the floppies.”

“You look at, you go to a big metropolitan hospital, and there's an 85% chance they're using one of the two EMR systems from either Epic or Cerner.”

“There's about six hundred million business computers in the whole world, and so if you look at the U.S., there's probably about a hundred million,”

“Lisa Gurry on the office marketing team, like, had this, like, let's really go crazy. Yeah. And, like, actually, Like, have a retirement party, and so we went, we flew down to San Francisco, we met with the press to tell them this, and then at one point we jus…”