He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that. Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts.
Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant
From his father Jobs had learned that a hallmark of passionate craftsmanship is making sure that even the aspects that will remain hidden are done beautifully. One of the most extreme—and telling—impl...
Franklin’s own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence,
Franklin’s diplomatic triumph would help seal the course of the Revolution. It would also alter the world’s balances of power, not just between France and England, but also—though France certainly did...
Franklin was worried that his fondness for conversation and eagerness to impress made him prone to prattling, punning and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company. Knowledge, he reali...
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
First and foremost is that creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. This
First and foremost is that creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. This was true of every era of creative fermen...
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.
Explorers Club, a group of fifteen or so students who met in the company cafeteria on
Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to clients. Leonardo clung to his favorite works, carried them with...
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 lugares como IBM, que se especializa en mejoras cotidianas realizadas por equipos de ingenieros, esta es la forma preferida de entender cómo se produce realmente la innovación.
El distintivo de una empresa innovadora no es solo ser la primera en tener nuevas ideas, también es saber cómo dar un salto al frente cuando se encuentra rezagada.
Einstein consideraba que la lealtad a un partido implicaba renunciar a cierta independencia de pensamiento,
Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance
Each moment incorporates what came right before and what is coming right after.
Discussions were to be conducted without fondness for dispute or desire of victory. Franklin taught his friends to push their ideas through suggestions and questions, and to use (or at least feign) na...
Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard’s sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul of an acquisitive capitalist. I would rather have it said, h...