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Bryan Cantrill

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Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

He's the nutcase's nutcase.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

He's the nutcase's nutcase.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Anyway, okay. Do you mind if I just on the Alvy Ray Smith? Because Alvy Ray Smith arrives at Park. And do you mind if I just read out loud the two paragraphs from that chapter from dealers of lightning? Because I think that this is really very evocative of their relationship and kind of how extraordinary that time was. Yeah. Um, uh, park then was at a peak of creative ferment.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Anyway, okay. Do you mind if I just on the Alvy Ray Smith? Because Alvy Ray Smith arrives at Park. And do you mind if I just read out loud the two paragraphs from that chapter from dealers of lightning? Because I think that this is really very evocative of their relationship and kind of how extraordinary that time was. Yeah. Um, uh, park then was at a peak of creative ferment.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Each day, some new feat of engineering appeared, virtually demanding to be shown off to anyone of the free moment. And here was Alvy Ray Smith, curious as a cat, at large with time to spare. Schaup fairly tingled with anticipation as he drove to the research center the next morning. Seated next to him was the one man he knew possessed the temperament to get super paint.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Each day, some new feat of engineering appeared, virtually demanding to be shown off to anyone of the free moment. And here was Alvy Ray Smith, curious as a cat, at large with time to spare. Schaup fairly tingled with anticipation as he drove to the research center the next morning. Seated next to him was the one man he knew possessed the temperament to get super paint.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Sure enough, the machine hit Smith like a lightning bolt between the eyes. He came in the door and got completely entranced, Schaup remembered. He just deep-ended right into it. The next several days and nights, the bewitched artist scarcely left the lab for more than an hour or two at a time. I realized this is what I had come to California for, Smith recalled.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Sure enough, the machine hit Smith like a lightning bolt between the eyes. He came in the door and got completely entranced, Schaup remembered. He just deep-ended right into it. The next several days and nights, the bewitched artist scarcely left the lab for more than an hour or two at a time. I realized this is what I had come to California for, Smith recalled.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

You could just see it was the future. And just to think that, like, that's the founder of Pixar, you know, in terms of, like, when he says being hit by a lightning bolt, this is a lightning bolt that has, like...

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

You could just see it was the future. And just to think that, like, that's the founder of Pixar, you know, in terms of, like, when he says being hit by a lightning bolt, this is a lightning bolt that has, like...

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

has real ramifications for like, this is, you know, we, this is why, you know, your, your three-year-old is singing, you know, so I want to build a snowman nonstop because it all starts here with a, you know, um,

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

has real ramifications for like, this is, you know, we, this is why, you know, your, your three-year-old is singing, you know, so I want to build a snowman nonstop because it all starts here with a, you know, um,

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

you know my dad's saying you know it was one person that could understand it again understand it technically but also really appreciate it artistically and i've i dropped this this image in the chat but the the image uh it works bang underneath written sort of your dad holding it holding it above and that is this is an image from the actual system right i mean this is the so

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

you know my dad's saying you know it was one person that could understand it again understand it technically but also really appreciate it artistically and i've i dropped this this image in the chat but the the image uh it works bang underneath written sort of your dad holding it holding it above and that is this is an image from the actual system right i mean this is the so

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And this is an extraordinary moment in the history of humanity. This is like Alexander Graham Bell, Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. I feel it's like... This is a breakthrough. And the fact that he's having to manipulate it with his feet shows what... I mean, he was working by himself on this, really.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And this is an extraordinary moment in the history of humanity. This is like Alexander Graham Bell, Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. I feel it's like... This is a breakthrough. And the fact that he's having to manipulate it with his feet shows what... I mean, he was working by himself on this, really.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Which I think is, I mean, so inspiring in so many different dimensions. Cause I mean, I think that like the, you know, the, the kind of people, the way people commonly think of park as, you know, Steve jobs kind of descends upon park and realizes that they're going to kind of fumble the future. Uh, and, and, and does the Lisa and, and the, the,

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

Which I think is, I mean, so inspiring in so many different dimensions. Cause I mean, I think that like the, you know, the, the kind of people, the way people commonly think of park as, you know, Steve jobs kind of descends upon park and realizes that they're going to kind of fumble the future. Uh, and, and, and does the Lisa and, and the, the,

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And the kind of the narrative is this kind of not giving credit where it's due, perhaps, to the Alto. And I kind of love this other narrative of this kind of park within park. This person is too renegade for the rest of park. Bob Taylor's like, what are you doing over here? This is not... This is not when I said pick anything that you want. This is not what I meant.

Oxide and Friends
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

And the kind of the narrative is this kind of not giving credit where it's due, perhaps, to the Alto. And I kind of love this other narrative of this kind of park within park. This person is too renegade for the rest of park. Bob Taylor's like, what are you doing over here? This is not... This is not when I said pick anything that you want. This is not what I meant.