So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.
One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, Computers are irrelevant. Building
It was an IBM machine, archaic now but gaudy then. The university owned it, in effect, and it lay inside a room that none but the machine’s professional caretakers could enter during the day. But Alsi...
It became apparent that communications and computing served each other so intimately that they might actually become the same thing;
In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their own ends, the pieces of the design enshrined in ideologies, which erased...
In the modern computer, software has developed in such a way as to fill this role of go-between. On one end you have the so-called end user who wants to be able to order up a piece of long division, s...
I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen, West said years later. There’s some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understan...
How does one person with great talents come to exert a force on the world? I think in Farmer’s case the answer lies somewhere in the apparent craziness, the sheer impracticality, of half of everything...
Farmer liked to tell his Harvard students that to be a good clinician you must never let a patient know that you have problems too, or that you’re in a hurry.
EVERY ADULT IS shaped by the experience of childhood and adolescence.
Company engineers helped to design Westborough, and they made it functional and cheap. One contractor who did some work for Data General was quoted in Fortune as saying, What they call tough auditing,...
By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.
But he realized that Haiti was now so embedded in his mind and heart that he could never abandon the country so quickly.
Among engineers generally, the most common form of ambition—the one made most socially acceptable—has been the desire to become a manager. If you don’t become one by a certain age, then in the eyes of...
Fraternité
The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers.
Several talked about their flexible hours. No one keeps track of the hours we work, said Ken Holberger. He grinned. That’s not altruism on Data General’s part. If anybody kept track, they’d have to pa...
Paul's face grew serious. 'I think whenever a people has enormous resources, it is easy for them to call themselves democratic. I think of myself more as a physician than an American. We belong to the...
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale.
It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret.