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...
Production. They had created a device with a little circuit board that could control billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure. You cannot believe how much confidence that gave us. Woz came to the...
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...
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...
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...
Baby You’re a Rich Man
I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it wors...
Suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused to budge, despite Joanna Hoffman’s pushback, from his commitment to have...
Playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome—one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class—and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels...
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...
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.
Leonardo was not content merely to measure every aspect of every body part. In addition, he felt compelled to record what occurs when each of these parts moves.
Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can understand, even take lessons from. It was based on skills we can aspire to improve...
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...
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...
Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man embodies a moment when art and science combined to allow mortal minds to probe timeless questions about who we are and how we fit into the grand order of the universe. It also...
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...
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.
So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way
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