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 usual, he combined experience and experiment; in fact he used the same word, esperienza, for both. While in Florence, he devised a pair of goggles for his dives in the Arno so he could study the wa...
At a reception at the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue, which now boasts the world's most interesting statue of Einstein, a twelve foot high, full-length bronze figure of him reclin...
At that time in IBM you had to wear a white shirt, dark pants and a black tie with your badge stapled to your shoulder or something, said Steve Bristow, an engineer. At Atari the work people did count...
At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.
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...
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 official signing of the parchment copy on August 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous flourish. There must be no pulling different ways, he declared....
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
Avie Tevanian, a lanky and gregarious engineer at NeXT who had become Jobs’s friend, remembers that every now and then, when they were going out to dinner, they would stop by Chrisann’s house to pick...
Basic to his political thinking was the recognition of the dignity of the individual and the protection of political and intellectual freedom.50 When
Being disputatious, he concluded, was a very bad habit because contradicting people produced disgusts and perhaps enmities.
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.
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.
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...
But Sony couldn’t. It had pioneered portable music with the Walkman, it had a great record company, and it had a long history of making beautiful consumer devices. It had all of the assets to compete...
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.
Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face-to-face meetings. There’s
Einstein had a similar conversation with his friend in Prague, Philipp Frank. A new fashion has arisen in physics, Einstein complained, which declares that certain things cannot be observed and theref...
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