He fell silent for a very long time. But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch, he said. Click! And you’re gone. Then he paused again and smiled slightly. Maybe that’s why I never like...
Einstein had a similar conversation with his friend in Prague, Philipp Frank. A new fashion has arisen in physics, Einstein complained, which declares that certain things cannot be observed and theref...
Earlier that year Jobs had been hoping to find a buyer for Pixar that would let him merely recoup the $50 million he had put in. By the end of the day the shares he had retained—80% of the company—wer...
Desse modo, ele cresceu não só com o sentimento de ter sido abandonado, mas também de que era especial. Em sua opinião, isso foi mais importante na formação de sua personalidade.
Creo que las distintas religiones son puertas diferentes para una misma casa. A veces creo que la casa existe, y otras veces que no. Ese es el gran misterio.
Congress decided to put him on a committee to write a declaration explaining why the colonies were seeking independence. It was back in the days when Congress knew how to appoint really good committee...
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...
Causality expresses the pattern which the mind imposes on a sequence of events in order to make their appearance comprehensible.
CHAPTER THIRTY The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The iTunes Store: I’m the Pied Piper CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Pixar’s F...
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...
Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house, he said. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.2 He
: We didn’t know much about each other twenty years ago. We were guided by our intuition; you swept me off my feet. It was snowing when we got married at the Ahwahnee. Years passed, kids came, good ti...
When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.
Would step in after one of Jobs’s tantrums. She would go to his office, shut the door, and gently lecture him. I know, I know, he would say. Well, then, please stop doing it, she would insist. Bowers...
Was too revealing. But talking to him afterward, I found myself rather captivated, as so many others have been over the years, by his engaging intensity. We stayed in touch, even after he was ousted f...
Values of commons-based sharing and of private enterprise often conflict, most notably over the extent to which innovations should be patent-protected. The commons crowd had its roots in the hacker et...
Usual, he threw himself into the marketing, working with James Vincent and Duncan Milner at the ad agency (now called TBWA/ Media Arts Lab), with Lee Clow advising from a semiretired perch. The commer...
The best semiconductor engineers in the country
Society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. Therein
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