He was incredibly phony, a complete poseur, he later said. He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn’t. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs. Matter...
He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that. Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts.
He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.
He believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful
He also noted that the veins of humans narrow with age, but the springs and rivers of the earth continually enlarge their channels.30
Having a healthy disregard for the impossible.’ That is a really good phrase.
Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant
Franklin’s scientific achievements placed him in the pantheon with Newton. Franklin’s experiments, he wrote in 1941, afforded a basis for the explanation for all the known phenomena of electricity.16...
Fortune proclaimed
Explorers Club, a group of fifteen or so students who met in the company cafeteria on
Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to clients. Leonardo clung to his favorite works, carried them with...
Eve in Foothills Park, Palo Alto: She’s a pistol and has the strongest
En los casos de internet, la Red y algunas formas de software, el modelo abierto demostró ser más efectivo.
El día en que presentó el Macintosh, un periodista de Popular Science le preguntó a Jobs qué tipo de investigación de mercados había llevado a cabo. A lo cual Jobs respondió, burlón: «¿Acaso Alexander...
Einstein once said, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
Einstein had a mild form of echolalia, causing him to repeat phrases to himself, two or three times, especially if they amused him.
Einstein consideraba que la lealtad a un partido implicaba renunciar a cierta independencia de pensamiento,
During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.
DreamWorks SKG. ALAN KAY. Creative and colorful computer pioneer who envisioned early personal computers, helped arrange Jobs’s Xerox PARC visit and his purchase of Pixar. DANIEL KOTTKE. Jobs’s closes...
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?’