Turing did have a tendency toward being a loner. His homosexuality made him feel like an outsider at times; he lived alone and avoided deep personal commitments.
Tribble recalled that he adopted the phrase from the Menagerie episodes of Star Trek, in which the aliens create their own new world through sheer mental force. He meant the phrase to be a compliment...
Thus it was that Einstein ended up deciding that quantum mechanics, though it may not be wrong, was at least incomplete. There must be a fuller explanation of how the universe operates, one that would...
This is largely because he felt it was futile to wrestle with theological questions about which he had no empirical evidence and thus no rational basis for forming an opinion. Thunderbolts from heaven...
This interplay of military and academic motives became ingrained in the Internet. The design of both the ARPANET and the Internet favored military values, such as survivability, flexibility, and high...
Think Different campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating.
Think Different campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating. After
They developed not merely modest product advances based on focus groups, but whole new devices and services that consumers did not yet know they needed.
There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
There can be something he knows absolutely nothing about, and because of his crazy style and utter conviction, he can convince people that he knows what he’s talking about,
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
The year before, 279,000 Apple IIs were sold, compared to 240,000 IBM PCs and its clones.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he said.55 One
The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.
The reality is that Ada’s contribution was both profound and inspirational. More than Babbage or any other person of her era, she was able to glimpse a future in which machines would become partners o...
The open sniping between Jobs and Eisner began in the summer of 2002
The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind. iTunes
The maker culture in America, ever since the days of community barn raisers and quilting bees, often involved do-it-ourselves rather than do-it-yourself.
The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it,