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“A Firefox and a Fire Eagle are counter intuitive in exactly the right proportions. These names resist comprehension but only just. They are counter intuitive, but not unintelligible.”

“Yet makers of the so-called “widget” software, whose programs have helped propel the networks’ growth, have yet to see much of that revenue, in part because of a lack of reliable data about how many people use their products.”

“The first building block of any Indiana Jones movie, according to Lucas, is something called the MacGuffin. The term, popularized by Alfred Hitchcock, refers to an object or goal that kicks the story into action and drives it to the third act. Hitchcock held that the less specific the MacGuffin the better. In his 1959 […]

“Let’s face it: few of us can draw something as simple as a tree well in two dimensions, let alone three.”

“In other words, guys like Don may not have the “sexiest” businesses but they’re sitting on real money (the kind that you can touch and smell). Guys like Calacanis and Wilson spend most of their time sitting on paper money that they hope they can turn into real money by finding people who think they […]