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Re:Why hasn't prefab construction taken over? by samatman on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:19PM (#24761622)
Eric Schmidt stole this story from Milton Friedman.

I'll restrain myself from any commentary on what sort of person that shows him to be, other than that implied in this sentence.

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Re:Why hasn't prefab construction taken over? by dudus on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:47PM (#24761754)
I didn't include a source because there probably isn't one. But he def told this story. I was there in person at a google off-site keynote
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Re:Why hasn't prefab construction taken over? by samatman on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:13PM (#24761895)
It certainly didn't originate with Schmidt, but according to this, it probably didn't originate with Friedman either:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/

Though he's best known for it.

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Re:Why hasn't prefab construction taken over? by dudus on Friday October 16, 2020 @09:23PM (#24806719)
It's kind of depressing seeing how much even leaders just blatantly copy each other quotes.
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