Bell resisted selling Texas Instruments a license. This business is not for you, the firm was told. We don’t think you can do it.38 In the spring of 1952, Haggerty was finally able to convince Bell La...
Be Here Now, a guide to meditation and the wonders of psychedelic drugs by Baba Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert.
Back in 1917, when Einstein had analyzed the cosmological considerations arising from his general theory of relativity, most astronomers thought that the universe consisted only of our Milky Way, floa...
At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then com...
At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.
As usual, he combined experience and experiment; in fact he used the same word, esperienza, for both. While in Florence, he devised a pair of goggles for his dives in the Arno so he could study the wa...
Another analogy he made was comparing the way that light, sound, magnetism, and the percussion reverberations caused by a hammer blow all disseminate in a radiating pattern, often in waves. In one of...
And so he calmly responded, Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.* The
Alto: She’s a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I’ve ever met. It’s like payback.
After the settlement Jobs continued to court Esslinger until the designer decided to wind down his contract with Apple. That allowed frogdesign to work with NeXT at the end of 1986. Esslinger insisted...
Advances in science when put to practical use mean more jobs, higher wages, shorter hours, more abundant crops, more leisure for recreation, for study, for learning how to live without the deadening d...
Abandoned. Chosen. Special. Those concepts became part of who Jobs was and how he regarded himself.
ARPA should not force the research computers at each site to handle the routing of data, Clark argued. Instead ARPA should design and give each site a standardized minicomputer that would do the routi...
AL ALCORN. Chief engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee,
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, Einstein once said. But, he hastened to add, intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
A lot of the credit, too, should go to Turing, for developing the concept of a universal computer and then being part of a hands-on team at Bletchley Park. How you rank the historic contributions of t...
A few days after he unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Jobs held a town hall meeting with employees at Apple’s campus.
A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.
Franklin and, by extension, the Junto were particularly fond of things that could help the public as well as themselves.)