On his journey home from delivering his acceptance speech in Sweden the following summer, Einstein stopped in Copenhagen to see Bohr, who met him at the train station to take him home by streetcar. On...
Now he was about to launch the Macintosh, a machine that violated many of the principles of the hacker’s code: It was overpriced; it would have no slots, which meant that hobbyists could not plug in t...
No scientist before Leonardo had methodically shown how birds stay aloft. Most had simply embellished on Aristotle, who mistakenly thought that birds were supported by air the way ships were by water....
Neglect is a form of abuse, she once scrawled on the wall of the hallway to their bedroom. She was entranced by him, but she was also baffled by how uncaring he could be. She would later recall how in...
Most of Leonardo’s drawings for Pacioli’s book, which was finished in 1498, are variations of the five shapes known as Platonic solids. These are polyhedrons that have the same number of faces meeting...
More than that, the iPod became the essence of everything Apple was destined to be: poetry connected to engineering, arts and creativity intersecting with technology, design that’s bold and simple.
Man’s knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition.
Kissinger’s main course was Principles of International Relations, which usually drew more than two hundred undergraduates enticed by his newfound humor and charisma. He started with Napoleon, dwelled...
Its leading thinkers embraced a Renaissance humanism that put its faith in the dignity of the individual and in the aspiration to find happiness on this earth through knowledge.
Its leading thinkers embraced a Renaissance humanism that put its faith in the dignity of the individual and in the aspiration to find happiness on this earth through knowledge. Fully a third of Flore...
It was then I realized that I do give a shit about Apple—I started it and it is a good thing to have in the world.
Instead he had a trait that was just as useful in promoting collaborative creativity and managing a team: he was decisive. More important, his decisiveness was based not on emotion or personal favorit...
Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product.
Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The
Initiates were required to stand, lay their hand on their breast, and answer properly four questions: Do you have disrespect for any current member? Do you love mankind in general regardless of religi...
In the seventy years since von Neumann effectively placed his Draft Report on the EDVAC into the public domain, the trend for computers has been, with a few notable exceptions, toward a more proprieta...
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone.
In notes for his treatise on painting, Leonardo recommended to young artists this practice of walking around town, finding people to use as models, and recording the most interesting ones in a portabl...
In his competition with Bradford, Franklin had one big disadvantage. Bradford was the postmaster of Philadelphia, and he used that position to deny Franklin the right, at least officially, to send his...