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I didn't want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.
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Si Von Neumann y su equipo hubieran seguido liderando las innovaciones y las hubiesen hecho de dominio publico, ?habria conducido ese modelo de desarrollo de codigo abierto a un progreso mas rapido de los ordenadores?
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O, por el contrario, la competencia de mercado y los incentivos economicos a la generacion de propiedad intelectual son mas eficaces a la hora de fomentar la innovacion?
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En los casos de internet, la Red y algunas formas de software, el modelo abierto demostro ser mas efectivo.
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McCarthy's vision was prescient, but it differed in one major way from Kay's vision, and from the networked world that we have today. It was not based on personal computers with their own memory and processing power.
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markets rather than merely chasing old ones.
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The knack is to get people to follow you, even to places they may not think they can go, by motivating them to share your sense of mission.
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One useful leadership talent is knowing when to push ahead against doubters and when to heed them.
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Bush's description of how basic research provides the seed corn for practical inventions became known as the "linear model of innovation." Although subsequent waves of science historians sought to debunk the linear model for ignoring the complex interplay between theoretical research and practical applications, it had a popular appeal as well as an underlying truth. The war, Bush wrote, had made it "clear beyond all doubt" that basic scienc..
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Sometimes the difference between geniuses and jerks hinges on whether their ideas turn out to be right.
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You're better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.
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Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be."
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If you need slides, it shows you don't know what you're talking about.
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When you see a beautiful woman, what do you feel?" Wayne replied, "It's like when you look at a beautiful horse. You can appreciate it, but you don't want to sleep with it. You appreciate beauty for what it is." Wayne said that it is a testament to Jobs that he felt like revealing this to him."
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system," he explained to Time. "We can take full responsibility for the user experience. We can do things that the other guys can't do." Apple's first integrated foray into the digital hub strategy was video. With FireWire, you could get your video onto your Mac, and with iMovie you could edit it into a masterpiece. Then what? You'd want to burn some DVDs so you and your friends could watch it on a TV. "So we spent a lot of time working wit..
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Apple's graphical user interface. Just as Jobs was being eased out of Apple in 1985, John Sculley had struck a surrender deal: Microsoft could license the Apple GUI for Windows 1.0, and in return it would make Excel exclusive to the Mac for up to two years. In 1988, after Microsoft came out with Windows 2.0, Apple sued. Sculley contended
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One of the commonly accepted narratives of the Internet is that it was built to survive a nuclear attack. This enrages many of its architects, including Bob Taylor and Larry Roberts, who insistently and repeatedly debunked this origin myth. However, like many of the innovations of the digital age, there were multiple causes and origins. Different players have different perspectives. Some who were higher in the chain of command than Taylor a..
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This interplay of military and academic motives became ingrained in the Internet. "The design of both the ARPANET and the Internet favored military values, such as survivability, flexibility, and high performance, over commercial goals, such as low cost, simplicity, or consumer appeal," the technology historian Janet Abbate noted. "At the same time, the group that designed and built ARPA's networks was dominated by academic scientists, who ..
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A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography . . . a remarkably sharp, hi-res portrait . . . Steve Jobs is more
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One aspect of innovation is inventing new devices; another is inventing popular ways to use these devices.
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somewhat like the ancient Greek "liar's paradox," in which the truth of the statement "This statement is false" cannot be determined. (If the statement is true, then it's also false, and vice versa.) By coming up with statements"
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ENIAC --insistio-- no era un cerebro en ningun sentido de la palabra. No podia razonar, como tampoco pueden hacerlo los computadores actuales, pero si que podia proporcionar mas datos que las personas utilizarian para sus razonamientos.>>
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ocupo el puesto de directora tecnica y coordino la creacion de COBOL, el primer lenguaje de programacion empresarial, multiplataforma y estandarizado.
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The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year,
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As [the company] has grown larger and larger, I have enjoyed my daily work less and less,
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the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action.
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The more open and unstructured a workplace, he believed, the faster new ideas would be sparked,
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if you suggested to people what the right thing to do would be, they would be smart enough to pick it up and do it,
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Only the paranoid survive.
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.
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He also had a trait, so common among innovators, that was charmingly described by his biographer Andrew Hodges: "Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience."
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When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone.
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his dad "putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them." He watched with fascination as his father tried to get a waveform line on"
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One of Steve Wozniak's first memories was going to his father's workplace on a weekend and being shown electronic parts, with his dad "putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them."
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as to the current or future directions of Apple's product designs, nor do other design firms we might deal with, so it is possible to inadvertently design similar looking products. It is in both Apple's and NeXT's best interest to rely on Hartmut
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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 tone used by the phone network's call-routing switches.
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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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