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I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important.
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I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on."
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Una de las premisas basicas de la innovacion es mantenerse centrado.
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better negotiating position in a year, after Pixar finished Finding Nemo. "Yesterday we saw for the second time the new Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, that comes out next May," he wrote. "This will be a reality check for those guys. It's okay,"
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That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children's eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a long time, then at Laurene, and finally gazed past them into the distance. "Oh wow," he said. "Oh wow. Oh wow." Those were his final words before he drifted into unconsciousness sometime around two that afternoon."
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ninguna maquina ha superado el test de Turing, una prueba bastante sencilla y, posiblemente, no demasiado significativa. Y, desde luego, ninguna ha superado el liston de Ada --aun mas alto-- de ser capaz de <> cualquier pensamiento propio.
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In his Apple office, 1982: Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them."
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The juxtaposition highlighted the shift from the interests of his father's generation. "Mr. McCollum felt that electronics class was the new auto shop." McCollum" --
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The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that a wife was a luxury, affordable only when a man was making a comfortable living. "I have a low opinion of that view of a relationship between a man and wife," he [Einstein] told Maric, "Because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a life-long contract."
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He never trusted Jobs with a key to the stockroom.
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It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had been told that Eddington was one of them. The shy Quaker said nothing. "Don't be modest, Eddington," said Silverstein. Replied Eddington, "On the contrary, I'm just wondering who the third might be."
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It was by all accounts a pleasant Atlantic crossing, during which Einstein tried to explain relativity to Weissmann. Asked upon their arrival whether he understood the theory, Weissmann gave a delightful reply. "During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it."
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The satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting.
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At a reception at the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue, which now boasts the world's most interesting statue of Einstein, a twelve foot high, full-length bronze figure of him reclining, he listened to long speeches from honorees, including Prince Albert I of Monaco, who was an avid oceanographer, a North Carolina scholar of hookworms, and a man who had invented a solar stove. As the evening droned on Einstein turned to a ..
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At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex equations that he scribbled on the blackboard while speaking in German. As one student admitted to a reporter, "I sat in the balcony but he talked right over my head anyway."
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I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics,"he said. "Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do."It was as if he were suggesting themes for his biography (and in this instance, at least, the theme turned out to be valid). The creativit..
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changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and moved to San Francisco. Esslinger picked the original name not merely because 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 lowercase letters offered a nod to the Bauhaus notion"
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Sealing the Microsoft deal by phone with Gates: "Bill, thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it."
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The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost," Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that the tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it's not that simple. At the company he founded after being ousted from Apple, Jobs was able to indulge all of his instincts, both good and bad. He was unbound. The result was a series of spectacular products that were dazzling market flops. This wa..
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eventually resigned to form a new company to make software
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Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father's electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers,
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Lost time is never found again."27"
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He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."14"
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."24"
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If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend." This"
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The first instinct that he indulged was his passion for design. The name he chose for his new company was rather straightforward: Next. In order to make it more distinctive, he decided he needed a world-class logo. So he courted the dean
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Franklin and, by extension, the Junto were particularly fond of things that could help the public as well as themselves.)
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The lesson Jobs learned from his Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.
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Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good politicians. At
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Head of Disney Studios, clashed with Eisner and resigned
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new, used, salvaged, and surplus components crammed onto warrens of shelves, dumped unsorted into bins, and piled in an
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early personal computers, helped arrange Jobs's Xerox PARC visit and his purchase of Pixar. D
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Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor. M
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Jobs's closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee.
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Jobs's closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee. J
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Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became close. She wrote novels loosely based on her mother Joanne (Anywhere but Here), Jobs and his daughter Lisa (A Regular Guy), and her father Abdulfattah Jandali (The Lost Father).
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Met Jobs at Atari, became first partner with Jobs and Wozniak at fledgling Apple, but unwisely decided to forgo his equity stake. S
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When nature gave us tears, she gave us leave to weep."34"
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Because a lot of people think they're crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.
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when truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood.
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Hallicrafters,
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Then he began writing the software that would get the microprocessor to display images on the screen. Because he could not afford to pay for computer time, he wrote the code by hand. After a couple of months he was ready to test it. "I typed a few keys on the keyboard and I was shocked! The letters were displayed on the screen." It was Sunday, June 29, 1975, a milestone for the personal computer. "It was the first time in history," Wozniak ..
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I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were lacking in our factory - was as sense of teamwork and discipline. If we didn't have the discipline to keep that place spotless, then we weren't going to have the discipline to keep all those machines running.
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Nevertheless, by dint of his personality and controlling instincts, Jobs was soon playing a stronger role. He spewed out a stream of ideas - some reasonable, others wacky - about what Pixar's hardware and software could become. And on his occasional visits to the PIxar offices, he was an inspiring presence. "I grew up a Southern Baptist, and we had revival meetings with mesmerizing but corrupt preachers," recounted Alvy Ray Smith. "Steve's ..
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