Not worth the mention, really

The unifying theme of the following bits: being mentioned in passing as if it wasn’t anything worth a fuss.

Paul Graham:

And of course another reason we made this site is that last summer we wrote the first reasonably efficient implementation of Arc, and we were looking for something to build with it.

Larry Page:

We have some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale […] It’s not as far off as people think.