Fraser Harris' blog - a collection of quotes and thoughts

It’s inevitable that as e-commerce steals share from traditional retail, Amazon will pass Wal-Mart as the US’s biggest retailer.

I feel sorry for Peter Thiel. Did he really want flying cars? Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another. On the other hand, 20 years ago we had the idea that information could become available at your fingertips. We got that done.

Will ownership turn out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly?

Wiley and the dissent claim that a nongeographical interpretation will make it difficult, perhaps impossible, for publishers (and other copyright holders) to divide foreign and domestic markets. We concede that is so. A publisher may find it more difficult to charge different prices for the same book in different geographic markets. But we do not see how these facts help Wiley, for we can find no basic principle of copyright law that suggests that publishers are especially entitled to such rights.

No single person has had more impact on the creation and financing of tech startups than PG. Period. The YCombinator revolution emancipated the engineering class from servitude to MBA overlords, demystified the art of company-founding, and made huge leaps toward democratizing access to capital. I could go on, but we all already know how lucky we are to have Paul.

“When I met Michael Jackson, I had just watched a movie called the Wiz, where MJ plays the Scarecrow. He does this incredibly awesome spin move on the yellow brick road. I said Michael that was the coolest dance moves I’ve ever seen. He said, ‘Actually, it was harder than it looks, I was spinning backwards up a hill.’

What I learned from MJ was this: no matter how hard it looks, it’s even harder to actually do.”