Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became close. She wrote novels loosely based on her mother Joanne (Anywhere but Here), Jobs and his daughter Lisa (A Regu...
Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Brunelleschi’s successor as a theorist of linear perspective was another of the towering Renaissance polymaths, Leon Battista Alberti (1404 –1472), who refined many of Brunelleschi’s experiments and e...
But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.
But the main lesson to draw from the birth of computers is that innovation is usually a group effort, involving collaboration between visionaries and engineers, and that creativity comes from drawing...
But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.
But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today’s technology revolution was fashioned.
But when a boy was born—on February 24, 1955—the designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.
But when he and Zuse proposed it to the German Army in 1942, the commanders said they were confident that they would win the war before the two years it would take to build such a machine.
By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.
By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped the what-next list on his whiteboard that year.
By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things. The original Mac team taught me that A-plus players like to work together, and they don’t like it if you tolerate B work. Ask...
By noting that she seems to listen but not speak, Bellincioni conveyed what makes the portrait so momentous: it captures the sense of an inner mind at work. Her emotions seem to be revealed, or at lea...
By the time I got to work, I had this realization that I didn’t have any more goals.26 For the next two months, he assiduously tended to the task of finding for himself a worthy life goal. I looked at...
By then Einstein had finally discovered what was fundamental about America: it can be swept by waves of what may seem, to outsiders, to be dangerous political passions but are, instead, passing sentim...
By this point Jobs had poured close to $50 million of his own money into Pixar—more than half of what he had pocketed when he cashed out of Apple—and he was still losing money at NeXT. He was hard-nos...
C. P. Snow was right about the need to respect both of the two cultures, science and the humanities. But even more important today is understanding how they intersect. Those who helped lead the techno...
CHARACTERS AL 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, develope...
CLARA HAGOPIAN JOBS. Hija de unos inmigrantes armenios. Se casó con Paul Jobs en 1946 y juntos adoptaron a Steve
CONTENTS Characters Introduction: How This Book Came to Be CHAPTER ONE Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen CHAPTER TWO Odd Couple: The Two Steves CHAPTER THREE The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In . . . CHAPTER...
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