We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the ext...
We had to learn their vocabularies in order to be able to run their problems. I could switch my vocabulary and speak highly technical for the programmers, and then tell the same things to the managers...
War mobilizes science.
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Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
To assess Franklin properly, we must view him, instead, in all his complexity. He was not a frivolous man, nor a shallow one, nor a simple one. There are many layers to peel back as he stands before u...
Thomas Carlyle afirmaba que «la historia del mundo no es sino la biografía de grandes hombres»,
This would require moving a million tons of earth, and Leonardo calculated the man-hours necessary by doing a detailed time-and-motion study, one of the first in history. He figured out everything fro...
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...
This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein’s moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish. He had demonstrated...
This inability to ground his fantasies in reality has generally been regarded as one of Leonardo’s major failings. Yet in order to be a true visionary, one has to be willing to overreach and to fail s...
They consider people who don't know Hamlet from Macbeth to be Philistines, yet they might merrily admit that they don't know the difference between a gene and a chromosome, or a transistor and a capac...
They all knew they were expected to be deferential to Jobs while also pushing back on his ideas and being willing to argue—a tricky balance to maintain, but each did it well. I realized very early tha...
There’s an old Hindu saying that goes, ‘In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.4
There Paul tried to pass along his love of mechanics and cars. Steve, this is your workbench now, he said as he marked off a section of the table in their garage.
The tongue of a woodpecker can extend more than three times the length of its bill. When not in use, it retracts into the skull and its cartilage-like structure continues past the jaw to wrap around t...