* today's petabyte feels lighter than 10 years ago. It's not only disk space, it's bandwidth: from network to bus to ram to cpu.
* often a matter seems trivial when you have a proof that a given design actually works. But someone had to build it the first time and get it right; understand which of the many were important, invest and risk. You can find spectacular failures even with less unknowns.
* today's petabyte feels lighter than 10 years ago. It's not only disk space, it's bandwidth: from network to bus to ram to cpu.
* often a matter seems trivial when you have a proof that a given design actually works. But someone had to build it the first time and get it right; understand which of the many were important, invest and risk. You can find spectacular failures even with less unknowns.
* the devil is in the detail.