This interplay of military and academic motives became ingrained in the Internet. The design of both the ARPANET and the Internet favored military values, such as survivability, flexibility, and high...
They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That’s what I’ve always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.
They got an apartment in the Sunset District facing the Pacific, just south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a repo man,
There was no CD tray, just a subtle slot. And as with the original Macintosh, there was no
There is in all humans, however, a desire and a deeply felt duty to worship a more intimate God,
There is an inspiring lesson in how Kilby and Noyce personally handled the question of who invented the microchip. They were both decent people; they came from tight-knit small communities in the Midw...
Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his
Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people.4
The year before, 279,000 Apple IIs were sold, compared to 240,000 IBM PCs and its clones.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,
The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn’t love him—the United States government, Einstein said.
The tale of their teamwork is important because we don’t often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.
The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had been told that Eddington was one of them. The...
The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.
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 open sniping between Jobs and Eisner began in the summer of 2002
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 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