Eddy Cue, who was in charge of the store, predicted that Apple would sell a million songs in six months. Instead the iTunes Store sold a million songs in six days.
Basic research leads to new knowledge, Bush wrote. It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn.
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...
There, so Jobs left a message asking him to come to dinner the following evening. He would also invite the
Then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in
Einstein later said, it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority.57
One day someone called the Institute and asked to speak to a particular dean. When his secretary said that the dean wasn’t available, the caller hesitantly asked for Einstein’s home address. That was...
Tribble said that Jobs would not accept any contrary facts. The best way to describe the situation is a term from Star Trek, Tribble explained. Steve
The phone, ‘You know that is not true,’ Brennan recalled. He was going to drag me
Einstein’s pacifism, world federalism, and aversion to nationalism were part of a political outlook that also included a passion for social justice, a sympathy for underdogs, an antipathy toward racis...
Painting a conventional portrait for a pushy patron did not interest him. Nor did money motivate him. He painted portraits if the subject struck his fancy, such as the Musician, or if a powerful ruler...
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...
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...
Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin.
People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.
After three weeks of lectures and receptions in New York, Einstein paid a visit to Washington. For reasons fathomable only by those who live in that capital, the Senate decided to debate the theory of...
Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles
Einstein wrote to Bohr, using his real name, in care of Denmark’s embassy in Washington, and somehow the letter got to him. In it Einstein described his worrisome talk with Stern about the dearth of t...
To engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint. The product review revealed how unfocused Apple had be...
The British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide
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