Quote. Unquote.
I admit I live in a bubble. The thing is, my bubble is the one where they develop the technologies that you’ll be using in your bubble in ten years.
Basically, I hang around with people who are good programmers. I realize this is not a random cross section of computer users. But it is a disproportionately important subset, because what they use, other people will be using later. These were the people who were using microcomputers in 1980; now everyone is; the people who were using email in 1988; now everyone is; the people who were using the Web in 1995; now everyone is; etc etc.
—Two of user paulgraham’s
comments on reddit.com
Ok, take a deep breath. Forget about whether you find these statements arrogant or elitist. Forget about whether you think they are true or not today. Forget about whether they were once true (I know that on
Saturday, November 9th, 2002, they were absolutely true).
The question I ask myself, and that I think you might want to try asking yourself, is this:
Am
I developing the ideas, technologies, and products today that the rest of the world will be using in ten years?
If not, what’s stopping me?
p.s. Don’t miss the comments!
p.p.s. And of course, this is not an orginal thought on my part.Labels: passion