Almost nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping it a secret, she explained.
Ada była twórcą konceptualizacji komputera (...), maszyny, która by przechowywała, manipulowała, przetwarzała, modyfikowała wszystko, co da się wyrazić symbolicznie
A left-hander, Leonardo wrote from right to left on a page,
7. At NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.
21. With Erin in Kyoto, 2010: Like Reed and Lisa, she got a special trip to Japan with her father.
The ability to make connections across disciplines—arts and sciences, humanities and technology—is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius.
Parts. Jobs said that the past twelve years of his life, since his return to Apple, had been
Ninguna máquina ha superado el test de Turing, una prueba bastante sencilla y, posiblemente, no demasiado significativa. Y, desde luego, ninguna ha superado el listón de Ada —aún más alto— de ser capa...
New, used, salvaged, and surplus components crammed onto warrens of shelves, dumped unsorted into bins, and piled in an
Member of the family recounted a few stories or read a poem. His mind was never a captive of reality, Laurene said. He possessed an epic sense of possibility. He looked at things from the standpoint o...
Megagrants—granting huge bundles of options to buy Apple stock at a preset price—that were not subject to the usual good compensation practices of board committee reviews and performance criteria. Whe...
Had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time’s editors
Frogs have the ability to metamorphose, but as a salute to its roots in the (f)ederal (r)epublic (o)f (g)ermany. He said that the
Book. When my Einstein biography came out, he came to a book event in Palo Alto and
When birds are descending near the ground and the head is below the tail, they lower the tail, which is spread wide open, and take short strokes with the wings; consequently, the head is raised above...
The knack is to get people to follow you, even to places they may not think they can go, by motivating them to share your sense of mission.
The iMac went on sale in August 1998 for $1,299. It sold 278,000 units in its first six weeks, and would sell 800,000 by the end of the year, making it the fastest-selling computer in Apple history.
Socrates’ method of building an argument through gentle queries, he dropped my abrupt contradiction style of argument and put on the humbler enquirer of the Socratic method. By asking what seemed to b...
So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality.
Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor.