I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics,he said. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people wh...
I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics, he said. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people w...
Human ingenuity, wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor m...
He’s a very, very sensitive guy. That’s one of the things that makes his antisocial behavior, his rudeness, so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be ru...
He was able to avoid pedantry by regularly bringing his theories down to earth, so to speak, and tying them to practical applications. As he instructed himself in a typical notebook jotting, When you...
He lies not because it’s in his interest, he lies because it’s in his nature. It was in Jobs’s nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.
He also noted that the veins of humans narrow with age, but the springs and rivers of the earth continually enlarge their channels.30
Fred Terman, un antiguo estudiante de doctorado de Vannevar Bush en el MIT que después sería decano de ingeniería de la Universidad de Stanford,
For his thirtieth and fortieth birthdays, Jobs had celebrated with the stars of Silicon Valley and other assorted celebrities. But when he turned fifty in 2005, after coming back from his cancer surge...
En 2011 se alcanzó un hito significativo: Apple y Google gastaron más dinero en pleitos y pagos relacionados con patentes que en la investigación y el desarrollo de nuevos productos.
El de relatividad es un concepto sencillo. Afirma que las leyes fundamentales de la física son las mismas cualquiera que sea nuestro estado de movimiento.
Eisner said he wanted to come to a board meeting, even though he was no
Einstein’s theory produced a law of the photoelectric effect that was experimentally testable: the energy of emitted electrons would depend on the frequency of the light according to a simple mathemat...
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...
Einstein’s discovery of special relativity involved an intuition based on a decade of intellectual as well as personal experiences.9 The most important and obvious, I think, was his deep understanding...
Einstein’s brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental process...
Einstein was asked what the next war would look like. I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, he answered, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.20
During his Oxford years, microprocessors became available. So, just as Wozniak and Jobs had done, he and his friends designed boards that they tried to sell. They were not as successful as the Steves,...
Despite his new fame and fortune, he still fancied himself a child of the counterculture. On a visit to a Stanford class, he took off his Wilkes Bashford blazer and his shoes, perched on top of a tabl...
David Brooks, Our Founding Yuppie, Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word meritocracy is an argument-starter, and I have employed it sparingly in this book. It is often used loosely to denote a...