Not given to swearing or screaming at his employees, Moore's placid facade belies a brilliant engineering mind.

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Some startups have brilliant engineering, like Instagram, others brilliant marketing, like Pinterest, but the common denominator is rapid growth.

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Sandy was able to breach the brilliant engineering of The Bathtub, not by causing the walls to fail, but instead by causing the sea to rise and overwhelm the banks of the Island of Manhattan.

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For all the talk about the league's brilliant schedule engineering for the Christmas re-entry, it sure sandbagged MSG with a stinker January.

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On the hand-held side, Hewlett-Packard has just introduced the 660LX, a brilliant piece of engineering that puts a lot of laptops to shame.

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While in Japan visiting customers, I met a brilliant project leader for a Japanese engineering firm who told me about how she has eliminated project-related emails by using their project management software.

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