It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden. He loved doing things right. He even care about the look of the parts you couldn't...
It was by all accounts a pleasant Atlantic crossing, during which Einstein tried to explain relativity to Weissmann. Asked upon their arrival whether he understood the theory, Weissmann gave a delight...
It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity...
It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he imagined.
Instead, this time he made what he called a slight modification to his theory. To keep the matter in the universe from imploding, Einstein added a repulsive force: a little addition to his general rel...
In addition, like many companies, Sony worried about cannibalization. If it built a music player and service that made it easy for people to share digital songs, that might hurt sales of its record di...
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!
I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted t...
I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of...
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...
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating. Steve Jobs
I cried in my office as he was showing me the idea, and I still cry when I think about it.
How This Book Came to Be
His unstoppable curiosity triumphed, and Leonardo went into the cave. There he discovered, embedded in the wall, a fossil whale. Oh mighty and once-living instrument of nature, he wrote, your vast str...
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...
His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he’d ever
His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he’d ever read any of my books.
His head-snapping insight was that gravity could be defined as the curvature of spacetime, and thus it could be represented by a metric tensor.