Einstein also became a supporter of racial tolerance. When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau Inn refused her a room. So Einstein invited her to...
During his Oxford years, microprocessors became available. So, just as Wozniak and Jobs had done, he and his friends designed boards that they tried to sell. They were not as successful as the Steves,...
David Brooks, Our Founding Yuppie, Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word meritocracy is an argument-starter, and I have employed it sparingly in this book. It is often used loosely to denote a...
Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘Wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
Closely related are the entries in his bestiary, a compendium of short tales of animals and moral lessons based on their traits. Bestiaries were popular among the ancients and in the Middle Ages, and...
By the time I got to work, I had this realization that I didn’t have any more goals.26 For the next two months, he assiduously tended to the task of finding for himself a worthy life goal. I looked at...
By the summer of 1996 Amelio realized that he had a serious problem.
But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer.
Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages,
Being disputatious, he concluded, was a very bad habit because contradicting people produced disgusts and perhaps enmities.
BRENNAN. Novia de Jobs en el instituto Homestead y madre de su hija Lisa. NOLAN BUSHNELL. Fundador de Atari y emprendedor modelo para Jobs. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Hija
At the official signing of the parchment copy on August 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous flourish. There must be no pulling different ways, he declared....
At first Jobs seemed to have pulled off Gates’s worst nightmare. Other computer makers that were beholden to Microsoft’s operating systems, most notably Compaq and
At a reception at the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue, which now boasts the world's most interesting statue of Einstein, a twelve foot high, full-length bronze figure of him reclin...
As a publishing magnate and then as a postmaster, he was one of the few to view America as a whole. To him, the colonies were not merely disparate entities. They were a new world with common interests...
As a Jew who had grown up in Germany, Einstein was acutely sensitive to such discrimination. The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me, he wrote in an essay called The Negro Questi...
Apple went public the morning of December 12, 1980. By then the bankers had priced the stock at $ 22 a share. It went to $ 29 the first day. Jobs had come into the Hambrecht & Quist office just in tim...
Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early
Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any spontaneous process tends to increase the entropy of a system.
After you interact with Ginevra de’ Benci long enough, what at first seem like a vacant face and distant stare begin to appear suffused with a haunting tinge of emotion. She seems pensive and ruminati...