"The gas tax is spent almost entirely on highways and public transit: http://www.artba.org/economics... So mocking someone for suggesting exactly that seems somewhat unfair." - Emmett Shear
“"In the age of the internet attaching a famous name to your personal opinion to give more weight to it is a very valid strategy." - Benjamin Franklin”
"I don't know about the others, but Reddit was profitable when it was acquired. Not *very* profitable yet, but it had only been 16 months, so you have to cut them some slack." - Emmett Shear
"YC tends not to fund startups with only one person, so getting more founders is good for more than just a few more bucks. The best places to find co-founders: - Schoolmates - Workmates - Housemates Hmmm....there's a theme here..." - Emmett Shear
"YC tends not to fund startups with only one person, so getting more founders is good for more than just a few more bucks. The best places to find co-founders: - Schoolmates - Workmates - Housemates Hmmm....there's a theme here..." - Emmett Shear
"YC tends not to fund startups with only one person, so getting more founders is good for more than just a few more bucks. The best places to find co-founders: - Schoolmates - Workmates - Housemates Hmmm....there's a theme here..." - Emmett Shear
"Those are perfectly good reasons to remove content from Wikipedia. But neither of those reasons is "notability" - why should that have such weight, alone?" - Emmett Shear
"Oh, certainly, they're happy to fund groups that have already begun work; that shows you're serious. But most groups have not, and so in the general case the order is money, then work." - Emmett Shear
""I don't own a cell phone" is the new "I don't own a TV". See the classic onion article [Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Does Not Own TV](http://www.theonion.com/conten...)." - Emmett Shear
""I don't own a cell phone" is the new "I don't own a TV". See the classic onion article [Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Does Not Own TV](http://www.theonion.com/conten...)." - Emmett Shear
""I don't own a cell phone" is the new "I don't own a TV". See the classic onion article [Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Does Not Own TV](http://www.theonion.com/conten...)." - Emmett Shear