The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that a wife was a luxury, affordable only when a man was making a comfortable l...
The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess. The
The nasty edge to his personality was not necessary. It hindered him more than it helped him. But it did, at times, serve a purpose. Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others,...
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no l...
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...
The company’s first office, after it moved out of his family garage, was in a small building it shared with a Sony sales office.
The company had not only a new logo, but a new name. No longer was it Next. It was NeXT. Others might not have understood the need to obsess over a logo, much less pay $ 100,000 for one. But for Jobs...
The combination of GNU and Linux created an operating system that has been ported to more hardware platforms, ranging from the world’s ten biggest supercomputers to embedded systems in mobile phones,...
The Ottoman Turks were about to capture Constantinople, unleashing on Italy a migration of fleeing scholars with bundles of manuscripts containing the ancient wisdom of Euclid, Ptolemy, Plato, and Ari...
The Innovator’s Dilemma.)
Steve had a TEAC reel-to-reel and massive quantities of Dylan bootlegs, Kottke recalled. He was both really cool and high-tech.
Steve believed it was our job to teach people aesthetics, to teach people what they should like,
Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer that an illiterate six-year-old can use without instruction, Noer wrote. If that isn’t magical, I don’t know what is.
So [Steve Jobs] had the Pixar building designed to promote encounters and unplanned collaborations ... to make people get out of their offices and mingle in the central atrium with people they might n...
Si Von Neumann y su equipo hubieran seguido liderando las innovaciones y las hubiesen hecho de dominio público, ¿habría conducido ese modelo de desarrollo de código abierto a un progreso más rápido de...
REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955. REED JOBS. Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell. RON JOHNSON. Hired by Jobs in 2000 to devel...
Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin.
One way to understand that Einstein was talking about invariance, rather than declaring everything to be relative, is to think about how far a light beam would travel in a given period of time. That d...
One sunny afternoon, when he wasn’t feeling well, Jobs sat in the garden behind his house and reflected on death. He talked about his experiences in India almost four decades earlier, his study of Bud...
One of the assistants who lived in Leonardo’s household at the time was a technician and locksmith named Giulio Tedesco, known as Jules the German, who returned to Germany around 1499 and spread Leona...