It made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of a Macintosh.
It is tasteless to prolong life artificially, he told Dukas. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell, George Riley, Kristina Kiehl, Kathryn Smith. John Lauerman and Connie Guglielmo, Jobs Liver Transplant, Bloomberg, Aug. 21, 2009. Return: Interviews with St...
Innovation is most vibrant in the realms where open-source systems compete with proprietary ones. Sometimes
In other words, the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers.
In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atanasoff shows, conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution. Jobs and...
In fact, it was specifically for discovering the law of the photoelectric effect that Einstein would win his only Nobel Prize.
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...
I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis,
Hume saw clearly that certain concepts, for example that of causality, cannot be deduced from our perceptions of experience by logical methods, Einstein noted. A version of this philosophy, sometimes...
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...
History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors.
His values were much aligned with mine. He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that...
His scientific understanding of optics thus enhanced the three-dimensional illusion of the painting.8
His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he’d ever read any of my books. Maybe someday, I continued to say. But in 2009 his wife, Laurene Powell, s...
His embrace, however, did not extend to people who were pretentious or pompous (with the exception of Wiener). When he thought a speaker was spouting nonsense, he would stand up and ask what seemed to...
His comparisons between man-made machinery and the handiwork of nature produced in him a deep reverence for the latter. Though human ingenuity may make various inventions, he wrote, it will never devi...
Head of Disney Studios, clashed with Eisner and resigned
He wished to please everybody, Franklin later said of Keith, and having little to give, he gave expectations.