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gave when she asked him that question. "Bush's iPod is heavy on traditional country singers," she reported. "He has selections by Van Morrison, whose 'Brown Eyed Girl' is a Bush favorite, and by John Fogerty, most predictably 'Centerfield.'" She got a Rolling Stone editor, Joe Levy, to analyze the selection, and he commented, "One thing that's interesting is that the president likes artists who don't"
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Embrace uncertainty," the ads read."
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I was way too shy ever to be a business leader like Steve.
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Ferrentino into separate classes. The teacher for the advanced class was a spunky woman named Imogene Hill, known as "Teddy," and she became, Jobs said, "one of the saints of my life." After watching"
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wanted instead to take a walk so that we could
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and extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant
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was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on
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launched his "Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic"
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Hallicrafters,
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deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him,
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Chain-smoking Marxist hired by Jobs in 1976 to be the electrical
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the beginning of 2002 Apple faced a challenge. The seamless connection between your iPod, iTunes software, and computer made it easy to manage the music you
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Jobs's triumph was soon complete. A few weeks after
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Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.
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It was not merely intelligence that she saw. Years later she liked to show off a
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With the "SWAB JOB" school prank sign"
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If a typewriter is antiquated, what does that make me?" she asked. There was an awkward pause. As Baez later told me, "As soon as I said it, I realized the answer was so obvious. The question just hung in the air. I was just horrified." --
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their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.
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las ideas nuevas afloran cuando una multitud de conceptos casuales encajan entre si hasta fusionarse.
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The day that Levy got his press preview of the iPod, he happened to be meeting Bill Gates at a dinner, and he showed it to him. "Have you seen this yet?" Levy asked. Levy noted, "Gates went into a zone that recalls those science fiction films where a space alien, confronted with a novel object, creates some sort of force tunnel between him and the object, allowing him to suck directly into his brain all possible information about it." Gates..
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In 2011 a milestone was reached: Apple and Google spent more on lawsuits and payments involving patents than they did on research and development of new products.
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build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
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tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare's Henry V--the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king--begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention." For Steve Jobs, the ascent to the brightest heaven of invent..
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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 Labs to let Texas Instruments buy a license to manufacture transistors. He also hired away Gordon Teal, a chemical researcher who worked on one of Bell Labs' long corridors near the semiconductor team. Teal was an expert at manipulating germa..
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connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. He and his colleagues at Apple were able to think differently: They developed not merely modest product advances based on focus groups, but whole new devices and services that consumers did not yet know they needed. He was not a model boss or human being, tidily
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This entailed switching around by hand ENIAC's rat's nest of cables and resetting its switches. At first the programming seemed to be a routine, perhaps even menial task, which may have been why it was relegated to women, who back then were not encouraged to become engineers. But what the women of ENIAC soon showed, and the men later came to understand, was that the programming of a computer could be just as significant as the design of its..
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The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery."
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Despues de varias sugerencias desangeladas (una de ellas era Electronic Solid State Computer Technology Corp.), terminaron decidiendose por Integrated Electronics Corp. Tampoco es que fuera un nombre muy apasionante, pero tenia la ventaja de poder abreviarlo como Intel.
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recalled Stephen Crocker, a graduate student on the UCLA team who had driven up with his best friend and colleague, Vint Cerf. So they decided to meet regularly, rotating among their sites. The polite and deferential Crocker, with his big face and bigger smile, had just the right personality to be the coordinator of what became one of the digital age's archetypical collaborative processes. Unlike Kleinrock, Crocker rarely used the pronoun I..
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Shockley had the ability to visualize quantum theory, how it explained the movement of electrons, the way a choreographer can visualize a dance.
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Laurene Powell, said bluntly, "If you're ever going to do a book on Steve, you'd better do it now." He had just taken a second"
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veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field." Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory"
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I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.
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interviews with more than a hundred family members,
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veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field."
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Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno. CLARA HAGOPIAN JOBS. Daughter of Armenian immigrants, married Paul Jobs in 1946; they adopted Steve soon after his birth in
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of the most momentous innovations tiptoe quietly onto history's stage. On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee was glancing through the Internet's alt.hypertext newsgroup and ran across this question: "Is anyone aware of research or development efforts in . . . hypertext links enabling retrieval from multiple heterogeneous sources?" His answer, "from: timbl@info.cern.ch at 2:56 pm," became the first public announcement of the Web. "The WorldWideWeb ..
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Back in 1917, when Einstein had analyzed the "cosmological considerations" arising from his general theory of relativity, most astronomers thought that the universe consisted only of our Milky Way, floating with its 100 billion or so stars in a void of empty space."
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way," Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience." When people take insights from multiple sources and put them together, it's natural for them to think that the resulting ideas are their own--as in truth they are."
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An engineer's engineer, Eckert felt that people like himself were necessary complements to physicists such as Mauchly. "A physicist is one who's concerned with the truth," he later said. "An engineer is one who's concerned with getting the job done."
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When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence.
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stuck with him. He saw a calf being born, and he was amazed
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Turing was offered a choice: imprisonment or probation contingent on receiving hormone treatments via injections of a synthetic estrogen designed to curb his sexual desires, as if he were a chemically controlled machine. He chose the latter, which he endured for a year. Turing at first seemed to take it all in stride, but on June 7, 1954, he committed suicide by biting into an apple he had laced with cyanide. His friends noted that he had a..
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In his competition with Bradford, Franklin had one big disadvantage. Bradford was the postmaster of Philadelphia, and he used that position to deny Franklin the right, at least officially, to send his Gazette through the mail. Their ensuing struggle over the issue of open carriage was an early example of the tension that often still exists between those who create content and those who control distribution systems.
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