When you see a beautiful woman, what do you feel? Wayne replied, It’s like when you look at a beautiful horse. You can appreciate it, but you don’t want to sleep with it. You appreciate beauty for wha...
When the fermentation is over and the troubling parts subsided, the wine will be fine and good, and cheer the hearts of those that drink it.41 Franklin was wrong, sadly wrong, about the French Revolut...
When part of this ecosystem was lacking, such as for John Atanasoff at Iowa State or Charles Babbage in the shed behind his London home, great concepts ended up being consigned to history’s basement....
When it came time to renegotiate the price, Hoff made a critical recommendation to Noyce, one that helped create a huge market for general-purpose chips and assured that Intel would remain a driver of...
When Jobs was losing his footing at Apple in the summer of 1985, he went for a walk with Alan Kay, who had been at Xerox PARC and was then an Apple Fellow. Kay knew that Jobs was interested in the int...
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What would have happened if Franklin had, in fact, received a formal academic education and gone to Harvard? Some historians such as Arthur Tourtellot argue that he would have been stripped of his spo...
What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's been done by others before us. I didn't invent the language or mathematics...
Wentworth arrived in Paris in mid-December, just as the Americans were meeting with Vergennes, and sent a missive worthy of a British spy: a gentleman who wished to meet him, it said, could be found t...
We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.23
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.
We believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone, Jobs declared in an email to a customer. Folks who want porn can buy an Android.
We believe that we are on the face of the earth to make great products, and that’s not changing. We are constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple not the complex. We believe that we...
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
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...
V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Vegetarianism and Zen Buddhism, meditation and spirituality, acid and rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subcu...
Una de sus máximas clave relativas a la inversión era apostar por la gente más que por la idea.
Una de las premisas básicas de la innovación es mantenerse centrado.