I was way too shy ever to be a business leader like Steve.
He did, however, invite Jobs to visit him at his hotel before the concert. Jobs recalled: We sat on the patio outside his room and talked for two hours. I was really nervous, because he was one of my...
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.
Einstein loved Aarau. Pupils were treated individually, his sister recalled, more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of autho...
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
Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, and it became deeply ingrained in his personality. Steve is very much Zen, said Kottke. It wa...
As the film progressed, Jobs became ever more excited about it. He had been talking to various companies, ranging from Hallmark to Microsoft, about selling Pixar, but
Another time, he was playing [chess] with his equal, the Duchess of Bourbon, who made a move that inadvertently exposed her king. Ignoring the rules of the game, he promptly captured it. Ah, said the...
Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware of it. We would often discuss potential techniques for grounding it, but after a while most of us gave up,...
A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade.
A hero of the piece was John Draper, a hacker known as Captain Crunch because he had discovered that the sound emitted by the toy whistle that came with the breakfast cereal was the same 2600 Hertz to...
21. With Erin in Kyoto, 2010: Like Reed and Lisa, she got a special trip to Japan with her father.
Never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
The importance of spawning new
The ability to make connections across disciplines—arts and sciences, humanities and technology—is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius.
Should
Old physicist joke: they knew that the approach worked in practice, but could they make it work in theory?