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...
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...
Also during the crossing, his ship narrowly avoided being wrecked on the Scilly Isles when it sought to evade French privateers in the fog. Franklin described his grateful reaction in a letter home to...
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.
Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.
Advertising wizard who created Apple’s 1984 ad and worked with Jobs for three decades. DEBORAH DEBI COLEMAN.
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...
According to the assumption to be considered here, when a light ray is propagated from a point, the energy is not continuously distributed over an increasing space but consists of a finite number of e...
ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN.
ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother
AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN.
ALCORN. Chief engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee,
A realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is int...
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics...
A physicist is one who’s concerned with the truth, he later said. An engineer is one who’s concerned with getting the job done.65
A physicist is one who’s concerned with the truth, he later said. An engineer is one who’s concerned with getting the job done.
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, Einstein once said, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. When people take insights from multiple source...
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.46
1843 Ada, Countess of Lovelace, publishes Notes on Babbage’s Analytical Engine. 1847 George Boole creates a system using algebra for logical reasoning. 1890 The census is tabulated with Herman
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