The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.
The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they...
The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people,
The Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center, known as Xerox PARC, had been established in 1970 to create a spawning ground for digital ideas. It was safely located, for better and for worse, thr...
The Kleinrock controversy is interesting because it shows that most of the Internet’s creators preferred—to use the metaphor of the Internet itself—a system of fully distributed credit. They instincti...
Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling, according to Amelio. He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.
So does that mean your real parents didn’t want you?
Predictions that digital tools would allow workers to telecommute were never fully realized. One of Marissa Mayer’s first acts as CEO of Yahoo! was to discourage the practice of working from home, rig...
Paul Jobs was then working at Spectra-Physics, a company in nearby Santa Clara that made lasers for electronics and medical products. As a machinist, he crafted the prototypes of products that the eng...
One of Steve Wozniak’s first memories was going to his father’s workplace on a weekend and being shown electronic parts, with his dad putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them.
On what may be the last page he wrote in his notebooks, Leonardo drew four right triangles with bases of differing lengths (fig. 143). Inside of each he fit a rectangle, and then he shaded the remaini...
Of course, it would have been even more exciting if Einstein had trusted his original equations and simply announced that his general theory of relativity predicted that the universe is expanding. If...
My father told me, ‘You always want to be in the middle,’ he said. I didn’t want to be up with the high-level people like Steve. My dad was an engineer, and that’s what I wanted to be. I was way too...
MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became close. She wrote novels loosely based on her mother Joanne (Anywhere but Here), Jobs and his daughte...
Leonardo’s willingness to question and then abandon the enticing analogy between the circulation of water on the earth and the circulation of blood in the human body shows his curiosity and ability to...
Leonardo’s interest in machinery was linked to his fascination with motion.
Leonardo da Vinci liked to boast that, because he was not formally educated, he had to learn from his own experiences instead
Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. He was a genius undisciplined by diligence.
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...
Kenneth Clark referred to Leonardo’s inhumanly sharp eye. It’s a nice phrase, but misleading. Leonardo was human. The acuteness of his observational skill was not some superpower he possessed. Instead...