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when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
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I don't think that kids starting out with computers today get as welcome of an entry to programming as I did.
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Decidir lo que no hay que hacer es tan importante como decidir lo que hay que hacer.>>
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El distintivo de una empresa innovadora no es solo ser la primera en tener nuevas ideas, tambien es saber como dar un salto al frente cuando se encuentra rezagada.
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MONA SIMPSON. 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). ALVY RAY SMITH. A cofounder of Pixar who clashed with Jobs. BURRELL SMITH. Brilliant, troubled programmer on the original Mac team, afflicted with schizophrenia in th..
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CONTENTS Characters Introduction: How This Book Came to Be CHAPTER ONE Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen CHAPTER TWO Odd Couple: The Two Steves CHAPTER THREE The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In . . . CHAPTER FOUR Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design CHAPTER FIVE The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In . . . CHAPTER SIX The Apple II: Dawn of a New Age CHAPTER SEVEN Chrisann and Lisa: He Who Is Abandoned . . . CHAPTER EIGHT Xerox and Lisa: ..
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CHAPTER THIRTY The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The iTunes Store: I'm the Pied Piper CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Pixar's Friends: . . . and Foes CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Twenty-first-century Macs: Setting Apple Apart CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Round One: Memento Mori CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX The iPhone: Three Revolutionary Products in One CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Round Two: The Cancer ..
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AL ALCORN. Chief engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee,
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told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the
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The computer will never be as important to society as the copier."73"
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of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any"
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Turing did have a tendency toward being a loner. His homosexuality made him feel like an outsider at times; he lived alone and avoided deep personal commitments.
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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. Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.
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published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction
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diagnosed with the disease. 2 The firm changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and moved
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That's why I'm here to kiss the corporate ass. I don't kiss everybody's.
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deism, tribunes of tolerance, and apostles of revolution. So it was inevitable
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Grace Hopper develops first computer compiler.
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tangerine clam, and a professional desktop computer that suggested a Zen ice cube. Like bell-bottoms that turn up in the
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There was no CD tray, just a subtle slot. And as with the original Macintosh, there was no
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something that's so thoughtful on the outside you say, 'Oh, wow, it must be really thoughtful
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things, by removing the superfluous." The G4 Cube was almost ostentatious"
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something that could be mass-marketed to consumers. The Cube ended up not serving
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sculpture for their desks, and mass-market consumers were not eager to spend twice what
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NeXT computer. But gradually he was learning his lesson. In building devices like the iPod,
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Ada's ability to appreciate the beauty of mathematics is a gift that eludes many people, including some who think of themselves as intellectual. She realized that math was a lovely language, one that describes the harmonies of the universe and can be poetic at times.
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had just fired somebody that day, and I imagined what it was like for that person to tell his family
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A lot of the credit, too, should go to Turing, for developing the concept of a universal computer and then being part of a hands-on team at Bletchley Park. How you rank the historic contributions of the others depends partly on the criteria you value. If you are enticed by the romance of lone inventors and care less about who most influenced the progress of the field, you might put Atanasoff and Zuse high. But the main lesson to draw from t..
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The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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great company must be able to impute its values from the first impression it makes.
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Babbage was charming when he wished, but he could also be cranky, stubborn, and defiant, like most innovators.
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the device had the property of transresistance and should have a name similar to devices such as the thermistor and varistor, Pierce proposed transistor. Exclaimed Brattain, "That's it!" The naming process still had to go through a formal poll of all the other engineers, but transistor easily won the election over five other options.35 On June 30, 1948, the press gathered in the auditorium of Bell Labs' old building on West Street in Manhat..
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Basic research leads to new knowledge," Bush wrote. "It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn."
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In the seventy years since von Neumann effectively placed his "Draft Report" on the EDVAC into the public domain, the trend for computers has been, with a few notable exceptions, toward a more proprietary approach. 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.64"
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The idea that John Lasseter pitched was called "Toy Story." It sprang from a belief, which he and Jobs shared, that products have an essence to them, a purpose for which they were made. If the object were to have feelings, these would be based on its desire to fulfill its essence. The purpose of a glass, for example, is to hold water; if it had feelings, it would be happy when full and sad when empty. The essence of a computer screen is to ..
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But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned.
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The reality is that Ada's contribution was both profound and inspirational. More than Babbage or any other person of her era, she was able to glimpse a future in which machines would become partners of the human imagination, together weaving tapestries as beautiful as those from Jacquard's loom. Her appreciation for poetical science led her to celebrate a proposed calculating machine that was dismissed by the scientific establishment of her..
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There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs's accomplishments
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Just as combining the steam engine with ingenious machinery drove the Industrial Revolution, the combination of the computer and distributed networks led to a digital revolution that allowed anyone to create, disseminate, and access any information anywhere.
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Finally, 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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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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At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.
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Throughout her life, she excelled at being able to translate scientific problems--such as those involving trajectories, fluid flows, explosions, and weather patterns--into mathematical equations and then into ordinary English. This talent helped to make her a good programmer.
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An irresistible glimpse into his complex and often
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