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
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.
To succeed at any ambitious project, you had to assess all of the intricate ramifications of an action, weigh probabilities, share information, organize people, and more.
To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. His
This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital...
This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to be one hitch, a flaw that needed to be fixed or fudged. His theory i...
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
There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on.
The tale of their teamwork is important because we don’t often focus on how central that skill is to innovation. There are thousands of books celebrating people we biographers portray, or mythologize,...
The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is e...
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions, he wrote a Brooklyn minister. Our inner balance and even our existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can giv...
The lesson Jobs learned from his Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.
The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.
The first RFC went out on April 7, 1969, mailed in old-fashioned envelopes through the postal system. (There was no such thing as email, since they hadn’t invented the network yet.)
The company began attracting influential new investors.
The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as insanely great as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it—but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule.
The Apple Marketing Philosophy that stressed three points. The first was empathy, an intimate connection with the feelings of the customer: We will truly understand their needs better than any other c...
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything,
That’s why I’m here to kiss the corporate ass. I don’t kiss everybody’s.
That’s a big thing with an invention, Eckert later said, contrasting their machine with Atanasoff’s. You have to have a whole system that works.