Terence Faircloth
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Retired Professor from Roosevelt University in Chicago. First computer was a TRS80 Model II; first app was Visicalc. Been at it ever since. Geezers can compute!
Terence Faircloth
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kingsley
Lord Keynes rightfully said that there is nothing so disastrous as a rational policy in an irrational world.
Adam Smith • The Money Game
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
— John Maynard Keynes
Once is a mistake; twice is a decision.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
— Virginia Woolf
The real secret to durable tech success isn’t charm or hype—it's stubborn, repeatable rules dressed as obsession.
Steve Wozniak is the engineer who built Apple.
He gave millions of his own money to early employees, stepped away from power, and refused to play by the rules everyone else was following.
Woz's philosophy of open architecture, the very one a young Steve Jobs fought against, is what saved Apple long enough for it to become Apple.
This is the story of
... See moreReliability is magnetic because humans are hardwired to avoid risk, so once you prove yourself trustworthy and reliable, you become the default choice for opportunities without ever asking for them.
— Shane Parrish
“Our age might have a plethora of electronic devices to encode each and every moment, but the portraitist’s eye remained unmatched in its power to capture the essence of the human subject.”
— The Enigma of Garlic: 44 Scotland Street Series (16) by Alexander McCall Smith
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— The Enigma of Garlic: 44 Scotland Street Series (16) by Alexander McCall Smith
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