Franklin’s diplomatic triumph would help seal the course of the Revolution. It would also alter the world’s balances of power, not just between France and England, but also—though France certainly did...
Franklin ended his Apology for Printers with a fable about a father and son traveling with a donkey. When the father rode and made his son walk, they were criticized by those they met; likewise, they...
Franklin asserted his conservatism more forcefully. Most notable was an anonymous piece entitled On the Laboring Poor, which he signed Medius,
Franklin and his petition were roundly denounced by the defenders of slavery, most notably Congressman James Jackson of Georgia, who declared on the House floor that the Bible had sanctioned slavery a...
Form follows emotion, a play on the familiar maxim that form follows function.
First and foremost is that creativty is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses.
Everyone must, from time to time, make a sacrifice on the altar of stupidity, to please the deity and mankind.
Einstein rejected the emission theory in favor of postulating that the speed of a light beam was constant no matter how fast its source was moving.
Durante la ausencia de Shockley y Brattain, la guerra transformó los Laboratorios Bell, que entraron a formar parte del triángulo integrado por el gobierno, las universidades de investigación y el sec...
Después de varias sugerencias desangeladas (una de ellas era Electronic Solid State Computer Technology Corp.), terminaron decidiéndose por Integrated Electronics Corp. Tampoco es que fuera un nombre...
Chief designer at Apple, became Jobs’s partner and confidant. ABDULFATTAH JOHN JANDALI. Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food an...
Bell resisted selling Texas Instruments a license. This business is not for you, the firm was told. We don’t think you can do it.38 In the spring of 1952, Haggerty was finally able to convince Bell La...
Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother o...
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...
As [the company] has grown larger and larger, I have enjoyed my daily work less and less,
Andy Hertzfeld joined the Macintosh team, he got a briefing from Bud Tribble, the other software designer, about the huge amount of work that still needed
Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.
Although thrilled that the era of the personal computer had arrived, he was afraid that he was going to miss the party. Slapping down seventy-five cents, he grabbed the issue and trotted through the s...
Although he was neither fully original nor correct in his description of a senso comune, he was right in his general view that the human brain receives visual and other stimuli, processes them into pe...