"I hate the term “minimal viable product.” Good companies do ship, but they pick the right features and they ship magic."

— Robert Scoble on harshing the mellow of startups

"When we see previously successful people achieve something new we tend to attribute this achievement to something we don’t have ourselves. But when you see a peer who is on the same playing field as you overcome a challenge and achieve something, we have no excuses for why we can’t do the same. It makes us more aware of what is possible and motivates us forward."

— Brian Balfour, Core peer groups

"We think that Harvard is complicit in propagating the ideology that made the current crisis possible,” said Amanda Haziz-Ginsburg, a camper who is a student at Harvard Divinity School."

— Harvard student adds her wordy voice to the Occupy Wall Street protests. The New York Times

Design goals of Node.js

No function should perform direct I/O.

To receive data from disk, network, or another process, there must be a callback.

Have built-in support for the most important protocols: TCP, DNS, HTTP.

Support many HTTP features:

  • Chunked requests and responses.
  • Keep-alive.
  • Hang requests for Comet-style applications.

The API should be familiar to client-side Javascript programmers and old-school UNIX hackers.

Be platform independent.

(Source: pavingways.com)