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“So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project—every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in—that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. … And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television.”

“Clearly, since I'm a badass programmer who can't recognize my own incompetence, I chose to do incremental parsing. I mentioned this plan a few months ago to Brendan Eich, who said: "Let me know how the incremental parsing goes." Brendan is an amazingly polite guy, so at the time I didn't realize this was a code-phrase for: "Let me know when you give up on it, loser."”