Berg to discuss the advances that were being made in gene splicing and recombinant DNA. Berg described how difficult it was to do experiments in a biology lab, where it could take weeks
Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back.
At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.
Also during the crossing, his ship narrowly avoided being wrecked on the Scilly Isles when it sought to evade French privateers in the fog. Franklin described his grateful reaction in a letter home to...
According to a tale recorded by James McHenry of Maryland, he made his point in a pithier way to an anxious lady named Mrs. Powel, who accosted him outside the hall. What type of government, she asked...
Abandoned. Chosen. Special. Those concepts became part of who Jobs was and how he regarded himself.
ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN.
ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother
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, developed graphics...
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, Einstein once said, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.46
A few days after he unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Jobs held a town hall meeting with employees at Apple’s campus.
A break came when Polish intelligence officers created a machine based on a captured German coder that was able to crack some of the Enigma codes. By the time the Poles showed the British their machin...
3. At Stanford, 1982: How many of you are virgins? How many of you have taken
2. In his kitchen: Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. 3. At Stanford, 1982: How many of you are v...
1950 and 1974. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of simple modern homes for the American everyman, Eichler built inexpensive houses that featured floor-to-ceiling glass walls, open floor plans,...
1. It is necessary for me to be extremely frugal for some time, till I have paid what I owe. 2. To endeavor to speak truth in every instance; to give nobody expectations that are not likely to be answ...
We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trus...