His theory indicated that the universe would have to be either expanding or contracting, not staying static. According to his field equations, a static universe was impossible because the gravitationa...
History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors.
It’s easy to throw stones at Microsoft. They’ve clearly fallen from their dominance. They’ve become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they did and how hard it was. They were very good at th...
Human ingenuity, wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor m...
Hume applied his skeptical rigor to the concept of time. It made no sense, he said, to speak of time as having an absolute existence that was independent of observable objects whose movements permitte...
Hume saw clearly that certain concepts, for example that of causality, cannot be deduced from our perceptions of experience by logical methods, Einstein noted. A version of this philosophy, sometimes...
I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics, he said. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people w...
Use as few chips as possible, both as a personal challenge and because he did not want to take advantage of his colleague’s largesse. Much of the work was done in the garage of a friend just around th...
I came to work with Steve for a week, Lin recalled.
Jobs began to accompany Wozniak to Homebrew meetings, carrying the TV monitor and helping to set things up. The meetings now attracted more than one hundred enthusiasts and had been moved to the audit...
I had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time’s editors and extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him wi...
Of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfr...
I hate it when people call themselves entrepreneurs when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the w...
Jobs asked some questions about education, and Gates sketched out his vision of what schools in the future would be like, with students watching lectures and video lessons on their own while using the...
People with the halo effect seem to know exactly what they’re doing and, moreover, make you want to admire them for it.
It’s one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings. I shouldn’t have. They had done so much to make sure I could go there, but I just didn’...
Truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself. Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition. The minute I dropped out I could stop...
Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general-purpose computer were women: Despite our coming of age in an...
I was on one of my fruitarian diets Steve Jobs recalled I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it wou...
I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.
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