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...
It’s a mark of our political discourse that one of the significant nonpartisan achievements on behalf of American innovation got turned into a punch line because of something that Gore never quite sai...
It was yet another example of Jobs consciously positioning himself at the intersection of the arts and technology. In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human...
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 a sunny day, and Einstein merrily played with the telescope’s dials and instruments. Elsa came along as well, and it was explained to her that the equipment was used to determine the scope and...
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 made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of a Macintosh.
Isaacson’s biography can be read in several ways. It is on the one hand a history of the most exciting time in the age of computers, when the machines first became personal and later, fashionable acce...
Isaacson is to be commended for explaining the genius of Jobs in fascinating fashion, launching a discussion that could reach infinity and beyond. —The Christian Science Monitor Walter Isaacson’s biog...
Interviews with Steve Jobs,
Interviews with Steve Jobs, Jeff Bewkes, Rick Stengel, Andy Serwer, Josh Quittner, Rupert Murdoch.
Innovation can be sparked by engineering talent, but it must be combined with business skills to set the world afire.
In the meantime, he rejected a friend’s offer to help him get a job at an insurance company, dismissing it as an eight hour day of mindless drudgery. As he told Marić, One must avoid stultifying affai...
In the first few pages, I was confronted with my family, my anecdotes, my things, my thoughts, myself in the character Jane,
In other words, there is no single underlying reality that is independent of our observations. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is, Bohr declared. Physics concer...
In other words, the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers.
In fact, it was specifically for discovering the law of the photoelectric effect that Einstein would win his only Nobel Prize.
In addition to his instinct for discerning patterns across disciplines, Leonardo honed two other traits that aided his scientific pursuits: an omnivorous curiosity, which bordered on the fanatical, an...
In a letter to Pixar shareholders, Jobs explained that winning the right to have equal branding with Disney on all the movies, as well as advertising and toys, was the most important aspect of the dea...
In 1907 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company faced a crisis. The patents of its founder, Alexander Graham Bell, had expired, and it seemed in danger of losing its near-monopoly on phone servic...