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.
Two events which, viewed from a system of coordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be looked upon as simultaneous events when envisaged from a system which is in motion relative to that system.
Use for yourself little, he said, but give to others much.26
Visions without execution are hallucinations.31
Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly, Pestalozzi wrote, and the learning of numbers and language must be definitely subordinated. 58
Walker Photos For almost thirty years, photographer Diana Walker has had special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio.
We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
We saw an example of this pattern-based analysis on the theme sheet, where he made the analogy between a branching tree and the arteries in a human, one that he applied also to rivers and their tribut...
We scientists in particular must foster internationalism, he said. Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this regard.41
We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years, recalled Powell. We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, ‘What is the purpose of a sofa?’
We try to use the talents we do have to
Week, July 31, 2000; Tim Cook, Auburn commencement address, May 14, 2010; Adam Lashinsky, The Genius behind Steve, Fortune, Nov. 10, 2008; Nick Wingfield, Apple’s No. 2 Has Low Profile, Wall Street Jo...
Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you...
Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned someth...
We’d buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan’s words struck chords of creative thinking.
What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely? Einstein asked. I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions.
What is it you don’t understand about the universe? Jobs replied, I don’t understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke.
What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect.
What’s the difference between Apple and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
When I look into most people’s eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone.
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