La innovación se produce por fases. En el caso del transistor, primero fue la invención, liderada por Shockley, Bardeen y Brattain; después la producción, encabezada por ingenieros como Teal, y por úl...
Kottke found Kobun amusing.
Just as combining the steam engine with ingenious machinery drove the Industrial Revolution, the combination of the computer and distributed networks led to a digital revolution that allowed anyone to...
Jobs, who could identify with each of those sentiments, wrote some of the lines himself, including They push the human race forward. By the time of the Boston Macworld in early August, they had produc...
Jobs spent part of every day for six months helping to refine the display. It was the most complex fun I’ve ever had, he recalled. It was like being the one evolving the variations on ‘Sgt. Pepper.’ ...
I’ve learned over the years that when you have really good people you don’t have to baby them, Jobs later explained. By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things.
It was by all accounts a pleasant Atlantic crossing, during which Einstein tried to explain relativity to Weissmann. Asked upon their arrival whether he understood the theory, Weissmann gave a delight...
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...
It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he imagined.
Instead, this time he made what he called a slight modification to his theory. To keep the matter in the universe from imploding, Einstein added a repulsive force: a little addition to his general rel...
In return for speaking at the retreat, Jobs got Murdoch to hear him out on Fox News, which he believed was destructive, harmful to the nation, and a blot on Murdoch's reputation. You're blowing it wit...
In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, Memento Mori: Remember you will die...
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.
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.
I said, ‘My God,’ and hired him on the spot, Jobs recalled.
How did he get his ideas? I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
His theory indicated that the universe would have to be either expanding or contracting, not staying static. According to his field equations, a static universe was impossible because the gravitationa...
He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him with a story that was too revealing. But talking to him afterward, I found myself rather captivated, as so many others...
He turned out to be good in geometry, but he never mastered the use of equations or the rudimentary algebra that existed at the time.