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Quotes form "Black code" and "Where good ideas come from"

Quotes from the book Black code - Ronald J. Deibert Hiring a DDOS attack, $30-$70 a day; backing a Facebook or Twitter account, $130; hacking a Gmail account, $162; scans of legitimate passports, $5 each. Around globe botnets can be rented cheap online from public websites for weeks, days, even hours. The security firm McAfee estimates that they receive 80,000 new malicious software samples a day. Want a fresh exploit that will target Adobe ? That will cost anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000. Mac OS X ? $20,000 to $50,000. Android ? $30,000 to $60,000. One exploit targeting Apple's iOS system was reportedly sold to a U.S. agency for $250,000. DDOS outage would cause substantial financial firms estimating losses at more than $10,000 per hour, and 67 percent of retailers at $1000,000 per hour. Beyond financial losses, companies also reported fears of damage to brand reputation. Quotes from "where good ideas come from - Steve Johnson" All other things being equal, a breakthroug

Quotes from the book "Measure what Matters"

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Here are some quotes from the book "Measure what matters - John Doerr". For the record below picture is generated by DALL-E (Open AI website). Our goals are servants to our purpose, not the other way around. We do not learn from experiences, we learn from reflecting on experiences. A mission is directional, An objective has set off concrete steps that you are intentionally engaged in and actually trying to go for it. The biggest risk of all is NOT taking one. In 2007, National academy of engineering asked a panel of elite futurists to choose 14 grand engineering challenges. They selected challenges like "generate energy from fusion, reverse engineer brain, prevent nuclear terror, secure cyberspace". At the time other email provider are giving 4 MB space, Gmail came with 1 GB free space. That my friend is BHAG(Big Hairy Audacious Goal). If you set a crazy, ambitious goal and miss it, you still achieve something remarkable. In a world where computing power is nearly l