God is all wise, all good, all powerful, he posited. Therefore, everything that exists or happens is with his consent. What He consents to must be good, because He is good; therefore evil doth not exi...
Grace Hopper develops first computer compiler.
HOLT. Chain-smoking Marxist hired by Jobs in 1976 to be the electrical engineer on the Apple II. ROBERT IGER. Succeeded Eisner as Disney
Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, a...
He also had a trait, so common among innovators, that was charmingly described by his biographer Andrew Hodges: Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.
He believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful
He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint, she noted. He knew the equations that most people didn’t know: Things led to their opposites.
He did it better because Steve had challenged him, said Atkinson,
He did, however, invite Jobs to visit him at his hotel before the concert. Jobs recalled: We sat on the patio outside his room and talked for two hours. I was really nervous, because he was one of my...
He had launched his 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.
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If...
He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe, Joanna Hoffman said. It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and...
He held himself back for a while, but not for long.
He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feat...
He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted were at times astonishi...
He never really cared too much about mechanical things.
He prescribed Euclidean geometry, followed by a dose of trigonometry and algebra. That should cure anyone, they both thought, from having too many artistic or romantic passions.
He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.14
He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face.
Head of Disney Studios, clashed with Eisner and resigned
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