«Si alguna vez surge una raza mentalmente sobrehumana —dijo en cierta ocasión Edward Teller, el creador de la bomba de hidrógeno—, sus miembros se parecerán a Johnny von Neumann.»
«En la pintura, las acciones de las figuras expresan, en todos los casos, la intención de su ánimo»,
When truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood.
Went to the cemetery he had chosen and were driven around in a golf cart. There were no plots available next to those of Paul and Clara Jobs, and Laurene hated the other options that she was shown, wh...
They’d ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.
The British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide
Suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused to budge, despite Joanna Hoffman’s pushback, from his commitment to have...
Stories involving the troubles in Northern Ireland, Morocco’s war for the Spanish Sahara, and a ring of traders violating the sanctions against Rhodesia. He was exhilarated by danger. Once in Belfast...
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Of the most momentous innovations tiptoe quietly onto history’s stage. On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee was glancing through the Internet’s alt.hypertext newsgroup and ran across this question: Is anyon...
My relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world.
Lens and making a camera. I learned more from her than any other
Know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and wa...
In a way that Sony, which had all the assets and heritage, never could accomplish.
Home in Pahrump, Nevada, where he played the penny slot machines and lived off his social security check. He later claimed he had no regrets. I made the best decision for me at the time. Both of them...
Had been his most productive in terms of creating new products. But his
Great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large
Girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York City. NOLAN BUSHNELL. Founder of Atari an...
Early years at Time, I was assigned to work under the national affairs editor, Otto Friedrich, a wry man with a bushy red mustache who seemed perpetually amused by himself. He taught me a wonderful in...