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 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 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 situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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 satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting.
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 downside
The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.
The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter.
The juxtaposition highlighted the shift from the interests of his father’s generation. Mr. McCollum felt that electronics class was the new auto shop. McCollum
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. —Apple’s Think Different commercial, 1997
The open sniping between Jobs and Eisner began in the summer of 2002
Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages,
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste,
Being a Jew was a disadvantage; being a nonbeliever who claimed no religion was a disqualifier. The empire required that all of its servants, including professors, be a member of some religion. On his...
The new Pennsylvania Fireplaces, as he called them, were initially somewhat popular, at £5 apiece, and papers around the colonies were filled with testimonials. They ought to be called, both in justic...
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no l...
The musician Bono, who later became a friend of Jobs, often discussed with him why those immersed in the rock-drugs-rebel counterculture of the Bay Area ended up helping to create the personal compute...
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