It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
From Geoffrey West
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.
Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.
A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II. I grew up with bomb sites everywhere.
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.
On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
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