Bushnell agreed. There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve,he said. He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you...
Bushnell agreed. There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve, he said. He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you...
Brunelleschi’s successor as a theorist of linear perspective was another of the towering Renaissance polymaths, Leon Battista Alberti (1404 –1472), who refined many of Brunelleschi’s experiments and e...
Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house, he said. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.
Both assessments contain a lot of truth, but there is more to it than that. There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas...
Blink your eye and look at it again. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is no more.
Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Besides, I believe that older people who have scarcely anything to lose ought to be willing to speak out in behalf of those who are young and are subject to much greater restraint.
Basic to his political thinking was the recognition of the dignity of the individual and the protection of political and intellectual freedom.50 When
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.
August 2001, when the stock price was just under $18. The problem was that he worried about his image, especially after the Fortune article. He did not want
At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. No, he replied, because customers don’t know what they want until we’v...
At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex equations that he scribbled on the blackboard while...
As the crisis waned during the fall of 1961, so did the last vestiges of Kissinger’s influence at the White House. In October he cleaned out his desk. Bundy sent him a letter of perfunctory thanks, wh...
As the Nazis continued to lose national elections but increase their share of the vote, the octogenarian president, Paul von Hindenburg, selected as chancellor the bumbling Franz von Papen, who tried...
As the Leonardo scholar Charles Hope has pointed out, He had no real understanding of the way in which the growth of knowledge was a cumulative and collaborative process.41 Although he would occasiona...
As it turned out, Microsoft wasn’t able to get Windows 1.0 ready for shipping until the fall of 1985. Even then, it was a shoddy product. It lacked the elegance of the Macintosh interface, and it had...
As a result, the process of designing a product at Apple was integrally related to how it would be engineered and manufactured. Ive described one of Apple’s Power Macs. We wanted to get rid of anythin...
As Franklin recounted: He composed it in these words, John Thompson, hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money, with a figure of a hat subjoined. But he thought he would submit it to his friends fo...
As Diderot once quipped, a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.