John Paczkowski

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QOTD: Robert X. Cringely on Google

Nobody works every minute they are at work, which means the Google Geeks are constantly talking with each other, team building, bonding and goofing off. And for 20% of that goofing-off time, I’ll guarantee you that many of these people are discussing their pet projects, 99.75% of which have been REJECTED by the company.

Robert X. Cringely suggests that the company that will supplant Google is already an idea in the head of one of its employees.


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  • http://www.thomashan.com/blog/ thomashan

    wow, that is one long title!

  • http://www.intuitive.com/ Dave Taylor

    John, “Cringely” has an amusing article, but it flies in the face of the experience of anyone working on the cutting edge. If you’re truly doing interesting research, than the majority of it IS going to fail and die. My experience? A couple of years at HP Labs, where management DIDN’T keep this basic dictum in mind and so we didn’t actually do much on the cutting edge…

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