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...
Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house, he said. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.
Both assessments contain a lot of truth, but there is more to it than that. There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas...
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.
Basic research leads to new knowledge, Bush wrote. It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn.
BILL GATES. The other computer wunderkind born in 1955. ANDY HERTZFELD. Playful,
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
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 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 different times in the past, there were companies that exemplified Silicon Valley. It was Hewlett-Packard for a long time. Then, in the semiconductor era, it was Fairchild and Intel. I think that i...
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...
As the Leonardo scholar Charles Hope has pointed out, He had no real understanding of the way in which the growth of knowledge was a cumulative and collaborative process.41 Although he would occasiona...
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 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...
Art Levinson, who was on Apple’s board, was chairing the board meeting of his own company, Genentech, when his cell phone rang and Jobs’s name appeared on the screen. As soon as there was a break, Lev...
Another key to fielding a great team is pairing visionaries, who can generate ideas, with operating managers, who can execute them. Visions without execution are hallucinations.31
And the Scripture assures me that at the last day we shall not be examined by what we thought, but what we did . .
An invention, especially one as complex as the computer, usually comes not from an individual brainstorm but from a collaboratively woven tapestry of creativity.
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 academic career in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts creates a danger of intellectual superficiality, he said.