«Los intereses de un ser humano vienen determinados, en gran medida, por sus apetitos, deseos, impulsos e instintos», dijo Braithwaite,
«All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace».11 Empezaba así: Me gusta pensar (¡y cuanto antes, mejor!) en un prado cibernético donde mamíferos y ordenadores vivan juntos en mutua armonía programada...
Would come in after Lang and others had left and work through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On
Who became Jobs’s spiritual teacher. LEE CLOW. Advertising wizard who created Apple’s 1984 ad and worked with Jobs for three decades. DEBORAH DEBI COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple m...
Were superlatives. The product was incredible, he said, the best thing we could have imagined. He praised the beauty of even the parts unseen. Balancing on his fingertips the foot-square circuit board...
Were able to build the boards more cheaply than we thought, because I got a good deal on parts, Jobs recalled. So the fifty we sold to the Byte Shop almost paid for all the material we needed to make...
War ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor
Wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. The smell and behavior wasn’t an issue with
Wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere,
Told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the
There, so Jobs left a message asking him to come to dinner the following evening. He would also invite the
Their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.
The rivalry between the big and little states almost tore the convention apart. Their dispute was over whether the legislative branch should be proportioned by population or by equal votes per state....
That religion was at its best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesu...
Tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a pa...
Stories on the company’s woes. NeXT is incompatible with other computers at a time when the industry is moving toward interchangeable systems, Bart Ziegler of Associated Press reported. Because relati...
Somewhat like the ancient Greek liar’s paradox, in which the truth of the statement This statement is false cannot be determined. (If the statement is true, then it’s also false, and vice versa.) By c...
Simply enjoy giving more than receiving in every respect, do not take myself nor the doings of the masses seriously, am not ashamed of my weaknesses and vices, and naturally take things as they come w...
Shaping some of the greatest technological innovations of our time. —The Washington Post A wonderfully robust biography that not only tracks Jobs’s life but also serves as a history of digital technol...
Serves as a history of digital technology. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson’s ability to shape the story as a kind of archetypal fantasy: the flawed hero, the noble quest, the holy...