Ada’s ability to appreciate the beauty of mathematics is a gift that eludes many people, including some who think of themselves as intellectual. She realized that math was a lovely language, one that...
After you interact with Ginevra de’ Benci long enough, what at first seem like a vacant face and distant stare begin to appear suffused with a haunting tinge of emotion. She seems pensive and ruminati...
Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.
Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is Let me tell you a story. Nobody is eager for a lecture, but everybody loves a story.
All he did was blow a lousy few million and they took his company away from him. Now, Sculley reflected, he was taking Jobs’s company away from him.
Alto: She’s a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I’ve ever met. It’s like payback.
America’s most dangerous internal threat, he felt, came not from communist subversives but from those who used the fear of communists to trample civil liberties. America is incomparably less endangere...
An Integrated Package As Jobs walked the floor of the Personal Computer Festival, he came to the realization that Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop had been right: Personal computers should come in a comp...
An academic career in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts creates a danger of intellectual superficiality, he said.
An engineer’s engineer, Eckert felt that people like himself were necessary complements to physicists such as Mauchly. A physicist is one who’s concerned with the truth, he later said. An engineer is...
An invention, especially one as complex as the computer, usually comes not from an individual brainstorm but from a collaboratively woven tapestry of creativity.
And so he calmly responded, Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.* The
Another analogy he made was comparing the way that light, sound, magnetism, and the percussion reverberations caused by a hammer blow all disseminate in a radiating pattern, often in waves. In one of...
Arthur Schieble died in August 1955, after the adoption was finalized. Just after Christmas that year, Joanne and Abdulfattah were married in St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Green Bay. He go...
As Diderot once quipped, a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.
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 a bonus, Rand agreed to design a personal calling card for Jobs. He came up with a colorful type treatment, which Jobs liked, but they ended up having a lengthy and heated disagreement about the pl...
As he once said, Picasso had a saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal’—and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. Another
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 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...
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