Shop class used to be. The juxtaposition highlighted the shift from the interests of his father’s generation. Mr. McCollum felt that electronics class was the new auto shop. McCollum believed in milit...
She said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping it a secret, she explained. I decided
Se describe al director ejecutivo ideal como una persona expansiva, reflexiva y de acción. Grove se dio cuenta de que, en lugar de estar encarnados en un solo individuo, esos rasgos podían darse en un...
Sculpture for their desks, and mass-market consumers were not eager to spend twice what
Relented, but it left Hertzfeld with a bad taste. When his leave was coming to an end, Hertzfeld made an appointment to have dinner with Jobs, and they walked from his office to an Italian restaurant...
Read it. But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn’t know it, was hit
Producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline. Jobs
Press or to Congressional committees. Thus the only way secrecy can be kept is to exclude from the making of the decision all those who
People who expect deference because they have a PhD and don’t want to deal with ordinary people tend to be annoying.
Original name not merely because frogs have the ability to metamorphose, but as a salute to its roots in the (f)ederal (r)epublic (o)f (g)ermany. He said that the lowercase letters
One stubborn glitch they couldn’t figure out: the program did a wonderful job spewing out data on the trajectory of artillery shells, but it just didn’t know when to stop. Even after the shell would h...
Off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged it to start ticking
Ocupó el puesto de directora técnica y coordinó la creación de COBOL, el primer lenguaje de programación empresarial, multiplataforma y estandarizado.
Most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively.
Most grounded people I have ever met. There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and
Macrocosm analogy began with his curiosity about why water, which should in theory tend to settle on the earth’s surface, emerges from springs and flows into rivers at the top of mountains. The veins...
Living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it, he told me. I think different religions are different doors to the
Like it. It sounded almost disco, and he gloomily argued that Dylan had been going downhill since Blood on the Tracks. So Hertzfeld moved the needle to the last song on the album, Dark Eyes, which was...
It made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority. 57
Is to read things that are not yet on the page. Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place...