We thus arrive at the important result: Events that are simultaneous with reference to the embankment are not simultaneous with respect to the train, said Einstein. The principle of relativity says th...
We need to be the company that manages your relationship with the cloud—streams your music and videos from the cloud, stores your pictures and information, and maybe even your medical data.
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive,unexpected, and at times magical. He was, indeed, an example of what the mathematician Mark Kac ca...
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Using Hollerith’s tabulators, the 1890 census was completed in one year rather than eight. It was the first major use of electrical circuits to process information, and the company that Hollerith foun...
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted. While
Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
Time cannot be absolutely defined, and there is an inseparable relation between time and signal velocity. More
Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going, he wrote in 1510....
This would require moving a million tons of earth, and Leonardo calculated the man-hours necessary by doing a detailed time-and-motion study, one of the first in history. He figured out everything fro...
This will be really powerful to have it in your voice, Clow argued. It will be a way to reclaim the brand. Jobs couldn’t decide whether to use the version with his voice or to stick with Dreyfuss. Fin...
This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein’s moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish. He had demonstrated...
They were still walking and talking when the stores opened at 10, and they went into Eddie Bauer. It had an entrance off the mall and another off the parking lot. Jobs decided that Apple stores should...
They all knew they were expected to be deferential to Jobs while also pushing back on his ideas and being willing to argue—a tricky balance to maintain, but each did it well. I realized very early tha...
There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after.
Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his sister, the writer Mona Simpson. His wife and their three children had taken a...
The relationship lurched up and down for five years. Redse hated living in his sparsely furnished Woodside house. Jobs had hired a hip young couple, who had once worked at Chez Panisse, as housekeeper...
The nasty edge to his personality was not necessary. It hindered him more than it helped him. But it did, at times, serve a purpose. Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others,...