Einstein would not, as it turned out, ever win a Nobel for his work on relativity and gravitation, nor for anything other than the photoelectric effect.
Einstein was not used to self-righting political systems. Nor did he fully appreciate how resilient America’s democracy and its nurturing of individual liberty could be. So for a while his disdain dee...
Einstein once said, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
Einstein had a mild form of echolalia, causing him to repeat phrases to himself, two or three times, especially if they amused him.
Einstein consideraba que la lealtad a un partido implicaba renunciar a cierta independencia de pensamiento, y aquella conformidad le confundía. «Para mí es un completo misterio cómo un hombre intelige...
ERIN JOBS. Middle child of Laurene Powell and Steve Jobs. EVE JOBS. Youngest child of Laurene and Steve. PATTY JOBS. Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs two years after they adopted Steve. PAUL REINHOLD JO...
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?’
Cook reduced the number of Apple’s key suppliers from a hundred to twenty-four, forced them to cut better deals to keep the business, convinced many to locate next to Apple’s plants, and closed ten of...
C. P. Snow was right about the need to respect both of the two cultures, science and the humanities. But even more important today is understanding how they intersect. Those who helped lead the techno...
But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.
Because a lot of people think they’re crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.
Be curious, relentlessly curious. I have no special talents, Einstein once wrote to a friend. I am just passionately curious.4 Leonardo actually did have special talents, as did Einstein, but his dist...
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over
Babbage was charming when he wished, but he could also be cranky, stubborn, and defiant, like most innovators.
At the end of the 1940s, when it was becoming clear to him that the effort to control nuclear weaponry would fail, Einstein was asked what the next war would look like. I do not know how the Third Wor...
At first Leonardo’s procrastination led to amusing tales, such as the time the church prior became frustrated and complained to Ludovico. He wanted him never to lay down his brush, as if he were a lab...
After I had deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him, I heard from him every
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...
AVADIS AVIE TEVANIAN. Worked with Jobs and Rubinstein at NeXT, became chief software engineer
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...