Thomas Carlyle afirmaba que «la historia del mundo no es sino la biografía de grandes hombres»,
It made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of a Macintosh.
In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atanasoff shows, conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution. Jobs and...
When it came time to announce the price of the new machine, Jobs did what he would often do in product demonstrations: reel off the features, describe them as being worth thousands and thousands of do...
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...
On occasion Jobs would use the semi-abandoned Woodside home, especially its swimming pool, for family parties. When Bill Clinton was president, he and Hillary Clinton stayed in the 1950s ranch house o...
In 1907 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company faced a crisis. The patents of its founder, Alexander Graham Bell, had expired, and it seemed in danger of losing its near-monopoly on phone servic...
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...
Outside of Search, Google’s products—Android, Google Docs—are shit.
Real? Terrell confirmed that it was, and the store agreed to front Jobs the parts on thirty-day credit. Garage Band The Jobs house in Los Altos became the assembly point for the fifty Apple I boards t...
V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins
If I had to choose between justice and disorder, on the one hand, and injustice and order, on the other, I would always choose the latter.
Others wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked
Torvalds decided to use the GNU General Public License, not because he fully embraced the free-sharing ideology of Stallman (or for that matter his own parents) but because he thought that letting hac...
Home in Pahrump, Nevada, where he played the penny slot machines and lived off his social security check. He later claimed he had no regrets. I made the best decision for me at the time. Both of them...
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...
The fifteenth century of Leonardo and Columbus and Gutenberg was a time of invention, exploration, and the spread of knowledge by new technologies. In short, it was a time like our own. That is why we...
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.
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...
Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno. CLARA HAGOPIAN JOBS. Daughter of Armenian immigrants, married Paul Jobs in 1946; they adopted Steve soon after his birth in
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