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
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 only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, he said. I don’t mean that in a small way. I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of or...
The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it, he told me. I think different religions are different doors...
The history of this nation up through the Civil War shows how difficult the establishment of a federal authority can be when there are profound differences in the values of the societies it attempts t...
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
The first instinct that he indulged was his passion for design. The name he chose for his new company was rather straightforward: Next. In order to make it more distinctive, he decided he needed a wor...
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 classic account of the Americans who rebuilt the world after the destruction of World War II.
The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked
The Defiant Ones and 48 Hours, in which two characters with different attitudes are thrown together and have to bond.
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.
That seemed a bit odd. I didn’t yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out
Such a leader knows how to empower groups to self-organize. When it’s done right, a governance structure by consensus naturally emerges, as happened both with Linux and Wikipedia. What astonishes so m...
So did Einstein, who wrote to another friend, You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.5 We should be careful to never outgrow our wonder y...
Simon & Schuster for thirty years, and Jonathan Karp, the publisher, both were extraordinarily diligent and attentive in shepherding this book, as was Amanda Urban, my agent. Crary Pullen was dogged i...
Silicon Valley The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.