We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.
Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.
The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.
