Para Leonardo, haber nacido fuera del matrimonio propició que no tuviera que ser enviado a una de las «escuelas de latín» que enseñaban los clásicos y las humanidades a los aspirantes a profesionales...
Only through the personal awareness and inward conviction that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded.
Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation.
NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.
More than three thousand people showed up at the event, lining up two hours before curtain time. They were not disappointed, at least by the show. Jobs was onstage for three hours, and he again proved...
Lasseter, August 1997: His cherubic face and demeanor masked an artistic perfectionism
Jobs had perfected the art of turning product launches into theatrical productions,
James was the first great fighter for an independent press in America, and he was the most important journalistic influence on his younger brother. He
I’m a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight.’
His fingerprints are all over today’s technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.
Gates’s Letter to Hobbyists, complaining about the unauthorized sharing of Microsoft BASIC, asked in a chiding way, Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? Torvalds found that an odd outlo...
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 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...
Every six months he would take most of his team on a two-day retreat at a nearby resort.
Ele chamou Gordon Moore e fundaram uma empresa que se tornou conhecida como Integrated Electronics Corporation, que eles inteligentemente abreviaram para Intel.
Each period is dominated by a mood, with the result that most men fail to see the tyrant who rules over them.
ENIAC —insistió— no era un cerebro en ningún sentido de la palabra. No podía razonar, como tampoco pueden hacerlo los computadores actuales, pero sí que podía proporcionar más datos que las personas u...
EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs’s wingman in dealing with content companies. A
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...
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...