I hate it when people call themselves entrepreneurs when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the w...
By the summer of 1996 Amelio realized that he had a serious problem.
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...
The removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic
Easy. It took scientists forty years to map the neurological activity of the one-millimeter-long roundworm, which has 302 neurons and 8,000 synapses.I The human brain has 86 billion neurons and up to...
El credo del PARC: «La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo».
With MartinLogan speakers and a hundred CDs. The software team was visible from the lobby in a fishbowl-like
The simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them.
I do not know the substance of the considerations and recommendations which Dr. Szilárd proposes to submit to you, Einstein wrote. The terms of secrecy under which Dr. Szilárd is working at present do...
Them for at most $9.99. Jobs came in and offered publishers what he had refused to offer record companies: They could set any price they wanted for their
Truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself. Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition. The minute I dropped out I could stop...
Then man-computer symbiosis, as Licklider called it, will remain triumphant. Artificial intelligence need not be the holy grail of computing. The goal instead could be to find ways to optimize the col...
I didn’t want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.
CHAPTER THIRTY The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The iTunes Store: I’m the Pied Piper CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Pixar’s F...
Freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel li...
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Would step in after one of Jobs’s tantrums. She would go to his office, shut the door, and gently lecture him. I know, I know, he would say. Well, then, please stop doing it, she would insist. Bowers...
Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyon...
Human ingenuity, wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor m...
Hume applied his skeptical rigor to the concept of time. It made no sense, he said, to speak of time as having an absolute existence that was independent of observable objects whose movements permitte...
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