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ChiMantoday at 4:13 AM2 repliesview on HN

>If anything, you win by being a good second.

More specifically, winning often means being last. Case in point: Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo!, Infoseek... then Google. Let others rush around doing your prototyping.


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kalb_almastoday at 5:10 AM

Google didn't win because it was last. It was last because it won!

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kreyenborgitoday at 5:19 AM

Xerox to Apple