In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. Other...
In a colorful part of the paper, he presented a fictional scenario in which he posed questions to the machine. He imagined the machine’s activity: Over the week-end it retrieved over 10,000 documents,...
In 1482, the year he turned thirty, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence for Milan, where he would end up spending the next seventeen years.
If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake, he said. Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no...
I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money,...
I think you still have to think differently to buy an Apple computer, he said. The people who buy them do think different. They are the creative spirits in this world, and they’re out to change the wo...
I think Henry Ford once said, If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’ People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on...
I like to think that something survives after you die, he said. It’s strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to bel...
I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the wheat field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with...
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation
Hubble then made an even more amazing discovery. By measuring the red shift of the stars’ spectra (which is the light wave counterpart to the Doppler effect for sound waves), he realized that the gala...
His product comes with an interesting feature called incompatibility, Gates told the Washington Post. It doesn’t run any of the existing software. It’s a super-nice computer. I don’t think if I went o...
His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we’ve outgrown our wonder years.
He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company.
He tried to maintain a middle ground between those who were reflexively anti-American and those who were reflexively anti-Soviet.
He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn’t. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and
He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn’t. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs.
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 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 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...