Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“You had a set of folks running these machines who were the priesthood of hardware, and the rest of us were railing against it,” says Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. “We wanted a playground where we could go to freely try things out.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Its uncannily effective Internet search product had changed the way people accessed information, changed the way they thought about information.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The word was milliravi.