Interviews with Steve Jobs,
It is tasteless to prolong life artificially, he told Dukas. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
It was a perfect school for Einstein. The teaching was based on the philosophy of a Swiss educational reformer of the early nineteenth century, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who believed in encouraging...
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.
After the speech Jobs hung around on the edge of the stage chatting with students. He watched Powell leave, then come back and stand at the edge of the crowd, then leave again. He bolted out after her...
Markets rather than merely chasing old ones.
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted. While
As a publishing magnate and then as a postmaster, he was one of the few to view America as a whole. To him, the colonies were not merely disparate entities. They were a new world with common interests...
Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell, George Riley, Kristina Kiehl, Kathryn Smith. John Lauerman and Connie Guglielmo, Jobs Liver Transplant, Bloomberg, Aug. 21, 2009. Return: Interviews with St...
Baby You’re a Rich Man
His comparisons between man-made machinery and the handiwork of nature produced in him a deep reverence for the latter. Though human ingenuity may make various inventions, he wrote, it will never devi...
Launched his Think Different campaign, featuring iconic
When you see a beautiful woman, what do you feel? Wayne replied, It’s like when you look at a beautiful horse. You can appreciate it, but you don’t want to sleep with it. You appreciate beauty for wha...
Leonardo became known in Milan not only for his talents but also for his good looks, muscular build, and gentle personal style. He was a man of outstanding beauty and infinite grace, Vasari said of hi...
CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison’s conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates’s...
The good painter has to paint two principal things, man and the intention of his mind, he wrote. The first is easy and the second is difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gesture...
This will be really powerful to have it in your voice, Clow argued. It will be a way to reclaim the brand. Jobs couldn’t decide whether to use the version with his voice or to stick with Dreyfuss. Fin...
Close to forty thousand Germans gathered in front of Berlin’s opera house on May 10, 1933, as a parade of swastika-wearing students and beer-hall thugs carrying torches tossed books into a huge bonfir...
Like many aspects of the digital age, this idea that innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humaniti...
Kottke found Kobun amusing.
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