"Totally. I can imagine people being seriously underwhelmed by the prototype of, say, Twitter. 140 characters, seriously? When, in fact, that was actually a key feature which, when combined the following model, and certain other pretty ephemeral conditions, led it to take of. I think this is why funds like DST aren't quite as dumb as some people (initially) perhaps made out. The trend is your friend."
- David Semeria
RT @paul_tomkins: RT @robertshrimsley: if Suarez really guilty why wld evra want 2 shake hands with him; & if he's really innocent why wld he shake with evra?
"Ah, you have made me happy Fred - for reasons which only I and awaldstein are aware of at the moment. A carefully chosen single word has a remarkable bang-to-buck ratio. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, as Steve Jobs liked to say. And it doesn't get more simple than a single word."
- David Semeria
"When I was a kid my dad bought me the UK equivalent of the TRS-80. We didn't have much money, so it was quite a sacrifice. He only had one condition: if he caught me playing games on it he would burn it. But I was a kid. Kid's like games. I needed to find a way round this, so I asked whether I could play games if I wrote them. He mulled on this for a while and then agreed. Four years later I won a scholarship for the best computing course in England. Smart chap, my dad."
- David Semeria