I was always in it for the money, especially in the form of acquisition. Everyone who came to work at Smart Bear was indoctrinated with this attitude in no uncertain terms; on more than one occasion I had put it: "We're simple country whores — we'll do anything for money."
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
from Bookmarklet
"Yes of course. My work is not going live until June 2010, so if .net4 could really make it to final version in Q1 of 2010, I think I can spend a few weeks just messing around. Or maybe work on it for the next iteration. Who knows."
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
"They might be dirt poor or a Harvard MBA making a great living as an accountant or a lawyer or an investment banker or whatever, but something in them says I don't just want to have a chill life. They say, "Something is itching in me to prove that I can make it in the most competitive in the environment imaginable." And they do. Sometimes they're 17 year-olds, still in college or high school, and sometimes 60 year-olds and they're done with their main career and they want to start swinging it. I find these people infinitely fascinating because they're not making rational choice from a risk to return ratio, they just aren't. They're taking their life's savings, they're taking their good job and they're throwing it out the window to build something that has a one-in-50 chance of being funded at all, and even once it's funded it has a 1-in-10 or 20 chance of getting even that money back to investors. It's just nuts and I love it like what drives these people, what drives them is this insane notion that they have to just have to do it."
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
from Bookmarklet
"I surely doesn’t hate this. I'd love to know whether I should expect an instant response from my contact if I were to send them a wave."
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
"So a challenge huh? very subtle... Anyway, I would love to read the spec after google send me my invite. *refreshes inbox, again*"
- Fajar Nurdiansyah