Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people.4
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.
The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn’t love him—the United States government, Einstein said.
The tongue of a woodpecker can extend more than three times the length of its bill. When not in use, it retracts into the skull and its cartilage-like structure continues past the jaw to wrap around t...
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,
The process of technological development is like building a cathedral. Over the course of several hundred years new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations, each say...
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 older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter.
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...
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 more open and unstructured a workplace, he believed, the faster new ideas would be sparked,
The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.
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 idea that John Lasseter pitched was called Toy Story.
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year,
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Suddenly Einstein jumped up. What are you doing? he demanded. Are you boiling the liver in water? Mrs. Frank allowed that was indeed what she was doing. The boiling-point of water is too low, Einstein...
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Steve talked to me a lot about being abandoned and the pain that caused, he said. It made him independent. He followed the beat of a different drummer, and that came from being in a different world th...