this was a super fun conversation about the history and future of programming, computing, technology, and just building cool stuff in the proverbial garage . This is the Lex Fridman Podcast. To support it, please check out our sponsors in the description, and now, dear friends, here's Dave Plummer. Tell me about your first computer. Do you remember?- I do. I didn't own my first computer for a long time, but the first computer I ever used was a
That's the mall, the big box stores, the strip malls, the franchise drive-through restaurants, the gas stations, the windy, cul-de-sac streets, the three car garage with the attached house.That's all this stuff out on the edge.
involves driving from my home in Bethesda to the Bethesda Hyatt Hotel and I park in the public parking garage excuse me uh beneath the Hiatt and I take the red line into DC just grab this water yet just for a quicksecond
is stacked towards the beginning of a task right it takes us like 2 weeks to build up the courage to clean out our garage or our basement but then we do it for 5 minutes and then the whole garage is clean in in a couple hours we getover that resistance and then we come deeply immersed in our work but the key
joining McKenzie I'm not joining Goldman Sachs I'm starting my own company in the garage this would be very bad news so it's a very different culture aroundentrepreneurship in um the developing World why is it important uh to America and particularly to American foreign
You remember these kinds of things inside your home? Garage door openers. And the trick, the thing that happened was, the unlicensed spectrum allowed equipment firmsto embed the use of that spectrum inside of their wireless antennas and their wireless
business I always like to say the good news was that pong could be made in a garage shop because that's all we had bad news a lot of people that had garage shops that could do it as well so win some lose
hotel manager I make money by selling five-star experiences if I've got 20 grand I'm not gonna redo lights in the garage that no one sees i'm buying high thread count sheets i'm buying better wine i'm hiring a third so male theseare the challenges that a five-star hotel manager says okay so what do you
very likely lose his life and so the thing that my dad would do was he would walk around the back of the garage and he would take a piece of paper or write in the dirt his imaginary address inCalifornia and at the first opportunity my dad left that town moved to Port Arthur Texas and lived with his uncle
Or I'm in my garage , actually, here. Nice garage . Thank you. We don't have to pretend that we're not doing that.
King and Dave Marsh, and a bunch of other flat-out no-talents who were just writers who enjoyed having this garage band together. And he said, I could even do that.
can figure out okay what did the parents leave off? But obviously some parents forget certain presents. They forgot about the bag they hid in the closets or above the garage or something like that. So, there are forgotten presents. Really the best way for Santa to guarantee that he is going to deliver the right gifts is to go in there and see what's under the tree. So, he's got a terahertz radiation scanner, hand-held obviously, and he looks through everything, and
have gone through he would have had to remove far more than his shoes uh at the know garage sale you know they just ultimately it was literally found in some collector's Cedar Chest in Atlanta
If we wanna save the world we should start at the mall because consuming, if we really boil it down to what that all means, not just to you and me in our living rooms and kitchens and garages but to the planet, consuming is how we shape the world we live in. Everything that we have inherited everything that surrounds us, environmentally and financially, all begins with the process of someone exchanging money for goods or services.
We're really lucky. I'm gonna burp. Devon: GarageBand. Rainn Wilson: GarageBand. And they're composing symphonies. It just, I don't know. It's one of the mysteries of the arts. So, I wish I had a better answer. Any thoughts on that?
like the garage set up, all F1 teams had to sit next to each other.
This overhead garage door manufacturer employed, I think it was, like, 220 people.
in his garage in Bellevue.
He knew the garage attendants' names.
The proverbial garage was also one part of my startup story.
There were garage sales.
It was in my garage .
We took over the garage , and we even took over one of the vans.
dans leur garage , vont commencer à reconstruire les machines, les améliorer et ça permet vraiment d'accélérer l'innovation.
Where's your garage ? It's amazing.
One was a garage mechanic, another at a little cell phone shop in Aleppo.
Maybe explain about the garage .
And in the garage I had a miniature refrigerator stored in the sink.
Clean a garage ? Clean the garage .
I had a garage sale of all the junk in my parents' house and bought a ticket and went to the Thai-Cambodian border
It's called the Garage .
started from a garage .
you know like in garage door opener, it will trigger the light.
This is our garage .
I find that in garages the items-- a garage tends to collect the items that are in transit.
We programmed the garage .
and your garage is in the attic, and the front room is in the bathroom, and your bathroom is in the backyard.
of the parking garage and I could always get it.
"In the garage was a furnace, but not just any furnace.
It's in the garage .
goes to the parking garage .
days in his garage , literally packing books, which is fascinating when you see those big pictures of the Amazon world. Bezos, the 'V' says to his 'O', 'What do you think about
"A gala garage sale at the Baker barn in the late 1970s coincided, as it happened, with my peaking anxious-class frustration and the semiannual lust to start making mischief with
business a garage startup can look pretty much the same to a consumer as something in a very large physical facility today
behind the garage in the Dusky hours after Aunt Elise had picked up cousin
bikes downstairs in the garage how many you guys ride bikes to work that is so great yeah that's
depends on it he's not going to take the risk even if it's a one-percent risk so what I did was gave up and I went down here to the garage this is another one of those slides that could cause you to despair about my presentation how many of you have the have heard of the easy
we learn from garage bands, what can we learn from that process meaning; and I'm thinking in terms of education. I'm thinking in terms of innovation so it's a kind of pattern. A garage band, you don't
you will of garage invention, which is obviously well known in the Valley here but what you might not know as well as this is Bagley Avenue. It's the garage of Henry Ford where in 1896
this patching material used to patch inner tubes and tires well they snuck in to the garage when my dad was sleeping and they coated the thick soles of his feet with that liquid rubber and then they set my dad's feet on fire and that