Alto Car Quotes

Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!

Another quality that comes naturally as you learn to surf is renunciation. Jerry and I had to practice renunciation every day. Because we wanted to surf in the afternoons, we renounced driving our souped-up cars up and down the street in front of Palo Alto High after school where everyone could see us. Jerry renounced smoking so he could keep his lungs in good shape to handle the strong currents and mammoth waves. We even had to renounce hanging out with girls in the afternoons. It wasn’t easy to give up these things that we liked, but we had fallen in love with surfing, so we did it. Renunciation is a matter of putting aside our immediate desires just a little bit so we can stay focused on something bigger. As Jerry and I waited in the water, watching the horizon for a wave big enough to carry us all the way in to shore, we were often tempted to take whatever wave came along. Resisting that temptation was another form of renunciation. Training in renunciation involves seeing our immediate desires as they arise without indulging them. If you indulge a desire, what happens next? Another desire arises. And another and another. The faster you indulge your desires, the faster they come. You’ll never learn to surf if you are distracted by the small waves that constantly lap at your surfboard. After a while, the small steady waves of desire no longer distract you. Eventually, even the surfboard begins to dissolve because you no longer need it. Suddenly, you realize that you are right there in the surf with no gap, no separation between you and the waves, completely immersed in the ocean. Wave by wave is how we stay engaged with life. It is the only way to experience the immediacy and vigor that real life offers. Sure, it’s raw. But we don’t need to protect ourselves from the moods and nuances of life’s great ocean. We can stay right with it, in placid times and in turbulent times. Life is always offering us the energy and vitality we need—just let the salt water seep into your pores.

As the Model S fever gripped Silicon Valley, I visited Ford’s small research and development lab in Palo Alto. The head of the lab at the time was a ponytailed, sandal-wearing engineer named T. J. Giuli, who felt very jealous of Tesla. Inside of every Ford were dozens of computing systems made by different companies that all had to speak to each other and work as one. It was a mess of complexity that had evolved over time, and simplifying the situation would prove near impossible at this point, especially for a company like Ford, which needed to pump out hundreds of thousands of cars per year and could not afford to stop and reboot. Tesla, by contrast, got to start from scratch and make its own software the focus of the Model S. Giuli would have loved the same opportunity. “Software is in many ways the heart of the new vehicle experience,” he said. “From the powertrain to the warning chimes in the car, you’re using software to create an expressive and pleasing environment. The level of integration that the software has into the rest of the Model S is really impressive. Tesla is a benchmark for what we do here.” Not long after this chat, Giuli left Ford to become an engineer at a stealth start-up. There

Non-monopolists exaggerate their distinction by defining their market as the intersection of various smaller markets: British food ∩ restaurant ∩ Palo Alto Rap star ∩ hackers ∩ sharks Monopolists, by contrast, disguise their monopoly by framing their market as the union of several large markets: search engine ∪ mobile phones ∪ wearable computers ∪ self-driving cars

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In early 2000, Thiel and Musk were set to meet with Mike Moritz at Sequoia’s office at 2800 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park to discuss the merger. Musk offered Thiel a lift from Palo Alto. The year before, Musk had purchased a Magnesium Silver McLaren F1, Chassis #067, from Gerd Petrik, a German pharmaceutical executive. A $1 million sports car complete with gull-wing doors and an engine bay encased in gold foil, Musk dubbed the automobile a “work of art” and “a really beautiful piece of engineering.” Even among McLarens, #067 was distinctive—one of only seven McLaren F1s legal to drive in the United States at the time.

Apple le echó también el ojo al talento de Tesla. Fichó tantos empleados de Tesla que su CEO, Elon Musk, dijo en una ocasión que el proyecto del Apple Car era un «cementerio de Tesla». «Han contratado a gente que nosotros hemos despedido —explicó Musk al periódico alemán Handelsblatt a finales de 2015—. Si no lo consigues en Tesla, te vas a trabajar a Apple.» Musk consideraba que un coche era para Apple, «lógicamente, el siguiente producto donde poder ofrecer una innovación importante

Los GE trabajan de muchas maneras, nuestra tarea más común era identifi car países que tenían recursos codiciados por nuestras empresas. Luego, seducíamos, sobornábamos y extorsionábamos a sus dirigentes para que explotasen a su propia gente, aceptando préstamos que esos países nunca podrían devolver, privatizando sus activos nacionales y por último vendiendo a precios de saldo a nuestras empresas esos ansiados recursos. Cuando los dirigentes se resisten, son derrocados o asesinados por chacales de la CIA. Tuvimos tanto éxito en el Tercer Mundo que nuestros jefes nos mandaron aplicar las mismas estrategias en Estados Unidos y el resto del planeta. El resultado es una forma insostenible de capitalismo que ha desatado la actual crisis económica […]. La fi losofía que rige este tipo particular de capitalismo es una absoluta creencia en la privatización de recursos, la concesión de poderes sin trabas a los ejecutivos de las empresas, y el fomento de una deuda tan extrema que tiene como resultado las modernas formas de esclavitud, tanto para los países como para los individuos. Por lo general, nuestras empresas identifi caban un país que poseía algo que ellas codiciaban –recursos que consideraban vitales o porciones estratégicas de bienes inmuebles–. Luego llegaban los GE para convencer a los dirigentes de ese país de que lo que necesitaban eran préstamos ingentes del Banco Mundial y sus organizaciones hermanas; sin embargo, el dinero, se informaba a los dirigentes, no sería distribuido directamente a su país, sino que sería entregado a las grandes empresas estadounidenses para que construyeran proyectos de infraestructura, tales como centrales eléctricas, puertos y parques industriales. “Todo eso les benefi ciará a ustedes –les decían a los dirigentes – y sus ‘amigos’”, las pocas familias poderosas locales que poseían negocios que prosperaban con electricidad, exportación y artículos manufacturados. Lo que no les decíamos era que los principales benefi ciarios serían nuestras propias compañías, las que construían los proyectos. Al cabo de pocos años, los GE regresaban al país. […] “Parece que están a punto de retrasarse en el pago de esos enormes préstamos que aceptaron.” […] “No se preocupen. Lo que tienen que hacer es vender su petróleo, o cualquier otro recurso, barato a nuestras empresas; anular las leyes laborales y medioambientales que nos plantean problemas; aceptar no imponer nunca aranceles a las mercancías de Estados Unidos; aceptar las barreras arancelarias que queremos aplicar a nuestros productos; privatizar sus servicios públicos, escuelas y otras instituciones públicas y venderlas a nuestras empresas” […]. Es un sistema que funcionó bajo el subterfugio y la astucia económica de personas que se mueven entre las corporaciones y el gobierno de los Estados Unidos […]. Al más alto nivel, no hay separación entre las personas que dirigen nuestras grandes empresas y quienes se encargan de gobernarnos