One mark of a great mind is the willingness to change it. We can see that in Leonardo. As he wrestled with his earth and water studies during the early 1500s, he ran into evidence that caused him to r...
One evening Wozniak, who had been floating into and out of Apple for the previous two years, wandered into the Macintosh building. Jobs grabbed him and said, Come over here and look at this. He pulled...
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...
On October 29 the connection was ready to be made. The event was appropriately casual. It had none of the drama of the one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind that had occurred on the moon...
Occasionally Leonardo appended a moral lesson to the entry, such as this: The oyster, when the moon is full, opens itself wide, and when the crab looks in he throws in a stone or seaweed and the oyste...
Neglect is a form of abuse,
My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed y...
Monday, May 27: Memorial Day was sunny and warm.
Microsoft’s success represented an aesthetic flaw in the way the universe worked. The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, he later said. I don’t mean...
Maybe it’s time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently, Business Week wrote in a story headlined Sorry Steve, Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work. Apple’s former chief financial officer, Jose...
Marsalis later recalled, I don’t care much about computers, and kept telling him so, but he goes on for two hours. He was a man possessed. After a while, I started looking at him and not the computer,...
Many people suppose that computing machines are replacements for intelligence and have cut down the need for original thought, Wiener wrote. This is not the case.14 The more powerful the computer, the...
Mac in a book.
Loyalty to a party, Einstein felt, meant surrendering some independence of thought. Such conformity confounded him. How an intelligent man can subscribe to a party I find a complete mystery,
Lower Manhattan to tell me that whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him.
Like most artist-craftsmen of his era, he did not sign his work.
Like many who lived through the war, they had experienced enough excitement that, when it was over, they desired simply to settle down, raise a family, and lead a less eventful life.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930
Leonardo’s relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—t...
Leonardo’s optics experiments produced discoveries that would not be rediscovered for another century.23 In addition, they were important in honing his ability to match theory with experiment, and the...