Jobs’s closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee. J
Kissinger’s main course was Principles of International Relations, which usually drew more than two hundred undergraduates enticed by his newfound humor and charisma. He started with Napoleon, dwelled...
La Bella Principessa: The Story of the New Masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci.31
Most of Leonardo’s drawings for Pacioli’s book, which was finished in 1498, are variations of the five shapes known as Platonic solids. These are polyhedrons that have the same number of faces meeting...
Most of the successful innovators and entrepreneurs in this book had one thing in common: they were product people. They cared about, and deeply understood, the engineering and design. They were not p...
Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
NeXT computer or Pixar movie,
Neglect is a form of abuse, she once scrawled on the wall of the hallway to their bedroom. She was entranced by him, but she was also baffled by how uncaring he could be. She would later recall how in...
No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds stay aloft. Most had simply embellished on Aristotle, who mistakenly thought that birds were supported by air the way ships were by water....
Now he was about to launch the Macintosh, a machine that violated many of the principles of the hacker’s code: It was overpriced; it would have no slots, which meant that hobbyists could not plug in t...
On his journey home from delivering his acceptance speech in Sweden the following summer, Einstein stopped in Copenhagen to see Bohr, who met him at the train station to take him home by streetcar. On...
On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause them to surrender the civil liberties and freedom of thought that they cher...
Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully.
Only the paranoid survive.
Para Leonardo, haber nacido fuera del matrimonio propició que no tuviera que ser enviado a una de las «escuelas de latín» que enseñaban los clásicos y las humanidades a los aspirantes a profesionales...
Picasso had a saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal
Public awareness is an important component of innovation.
Raskin died of pancreatic cancer in 2005, not long after Jobs was diagnosed with the disease.
Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.
Rupert Murdoch accepta d’écouter la vision que Jobs avait de Fox News, une chaîne que le P-DG d’Apple considérait comme destructrice pour la nation et dangereuse pour la réputation de son patron. « Vo...
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