Was also true when it came to personal commitments. If he knew for sure a course of action was right, he was unstoppable. But if he had doubts, he sometimes withdrew, preferring not to think about thi...
But Jobs's most poignant ruminations were about growing old and facing the future:Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most case...
The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.
The downside
Bush’s description of how basic research provides the seed corn for practical inventions became known as the linear model of innovation. Although subsequent waves of science historians sought to debun...
The satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting.
But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer.
The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations, he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. The conduct of the German intellectual...
The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, a...
The creation of a triangular relationship among government, industry, and academia was, in its own way, one of the significant innovations that helped produce the technological revolution of the late...
The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had been told that Eddington was one of them. The...
The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them.
The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.
But Jobs was the first to become obsessed with the idea of incorporating PARC’s interface ideas into a simple, inexpensive, personal computer. Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from t...
«En la pintura, las acciones de las figuras expresan, en todos los casos, la intención de su ánimo»,
«La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo».
The Macintosh experience taught me that A players like to work only with other A players, which means you can’t indulge B players.
«Hacer lo imposible es bastante divertido», declaró en una ocasión Walt Disney.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he said.55 One
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