Hertzfeld explained that he needed to get his Apple II DOS program in good enough shape to hand it over to someone. You’re just wasting your time with that! Jobs replied. Who cares about the Apple II?...
Henry Ford once said, If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!
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 held himself back for a while, but not for long.
Fred Terman, un antiguo estudiante de doctorado de Vannevar Bush en el MIT que después sería decano de ingeniería de la Universidad de Stanford,
Franklin’s own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence,
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
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...
For Leonardo, this talent may have been connected to growing up with a love of nature while not being overly schooled in received wisdom.
Fish and guests stink after three days.
Finally, I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.
Falling in love is not the most stupid thing that people do, Einstein scribbled on the letter, but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Every time I’d design something great, Steve would find a way to make money for us, said Wozniak.
Even a genius like Schopenhauer was crushed by unemployment, he wrote. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.30 Eduard
En palabras de George Dyson: «El computador de programa almacenado, tal y como lo imaginó Alan Turing y lo plasmó John von Neumann, diluyó la distinción entre números que significan cosas y números qu...
En los primeros treinta años de tu vida, tú defines tus hábitos. Durante los últimos treinta, tus hábitos te definen a ti.
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...