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Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin. Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his leathery exterior.
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Woz's father taught him something else that became ingrained in his childlike, socially awkward personality:
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Those sentences are somewhat clotted,
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playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome--one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class--and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged
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because of the huge number of pages and links involved, Page and Brin named their search engine Google, playing off googol, the term for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros. It was a suggestion made by one of their Stanford officemates, Sean Anderson, and when they typed in Google to see if the domain name was available, it was. So Page snapped it up. "I'm not sure that we realized that we had made a spelling error," Brin later said. "..
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Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant
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War mobilizes science.
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accept. He stared at Weeks unblinking. "Yes, you can do it," he said. "Get your mind around it. You can do it." As Weeks retold this story, he shook his head in astonishment. "We did"
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Cuando Einstein se sentia bloqueado mientras trabajaba en la relatividad general, cogia su violin y tocaba musica de Mozart hasta que volvia a conectar con lo que el denominaba la <>.
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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. The artful minimalism of the speech gave it simplicity, purity, and charm.
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Gates was the prime example of the innovator's personality. "An innovator is probably a fanatic, somebody who loves what they do, works day and night, may ignore normal things to some degree and therefore be viewed as a bit imbalanced," he said. "Certainly in my teens and 20s, I fit that model."
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While the men and various dignitaries celebrated, Jennings and Snyder made their way home alone through a very cold February night.
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Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages,
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Although thrilled that the era of the personal computer had arrived, he was afraid that he was going to miss the party. Slapping down seventy-five cents, he grabbed the issue and trotted through the slushy snow to the Harvard dorm room of Bill Gates, his high school buddy and fellow computer fanatic from Seattle, who had convinced him to drop out of college and move to Cambridge. "Hey, this thing is happening without us," Allen declared. Ga..
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a simple, inspiring mission for Wikipedia: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." It was a huge, audacious, and worthy goal. But it badly understated what Wikipedia did. It was about more than people being "given" free access to knowledge; it was also about empowering them, in a way not seen before in history, to be part of the process of ..
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De hecho, se establecio una relacion simbiotica entre la aparicion de la radio de transistores y la irrupcion del rock and roll. La primera grabacion comercial de Elvis Presley, <>, salio a la venta al mismo tiempo que la radio Regency.
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The people who received RFC 1 felt that they were being included in a fun process rather than being dictated to by a bunch of protocol czars. It was a network they were talking about, so it made sense to try to loop everyone in.
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In his logbook, Kline recorded, in a memorably minimalist notation, "22:30. Talked to SRI Host to Host. CSK."
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circuit. "I don't remember any time when a light bulb went off and the whole thing was there," conceded Noyce. "It was more like, every day, you would say, 'Well, if I could do this, then maybe I could do that, and that would let me do this,' and eventually you had the concept."9 After this flurry of activity he wrote an entry in his notebook, in January 1959: "It would be desirable to make multiple devices on a single piece of silicon."10"
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values of commons-based sharing and of private enterprise often conflict, most notably over the extent to which innovations should be patent-protected. The commons crowd had its roots in the hacker ethic that emanated from the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club and the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve Wozniak was an exemplar. He went to Homebrew meetings to show off the computer circuit he built, and he handed out freely the schematics so that other..
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then "man-computer symbiosis," as Licklider called it, will remain triumphant. Artificial intelligence need not be the holy grail of computing. The goal instead could be to find ways to optimize the collaboration between human and machine capabilities--to forge a partnership in which we let the machines do what they do best, and they let us do what we do best. SOME LESSONS FROM THE JOURNEY Like all historical narratives, the story of the in..
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Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.
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Instead he had a trait that was just as useful in promoting collaborative creativity and managing a team: he was decisive. More important, his decisiveness was based not on emotion or personal favoritism but rather on a rational and precise analysis of options.
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Human ingenuity," wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, "will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does."
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based on international law.
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I'm about fifty-fifty on believing in God," he said. "For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye." He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overestimating the odds out of a desire to believe in an afterlife. "I like to think that something survives after you die," he said. "It's strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. ..
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ARPA should not force the research computers at each site to handle the routing of data, Clark argued. Instead ARPA should design and give each site a standardized minicomputer that would do the routing.
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Causality expresses the pattern which the mind imposes on a sequence of events in order to make their appearance comprehensible.
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His paper, titled "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits," was published in the April 1965 issue of Electronics magazine."
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The first RFC went out on April 7, 1969, mailed in old-fashioned envelopes through the postal system. (There was no such thing as email, since they hadn't invented the network yet.)
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Man's knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition.
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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
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On October 29 the connection was ready to be made. The event was appropriately casual. It had none of the drama of the "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" that had occurred on the moon a few weeks earlier, with a half billion people watching on television. Instead it was an undergraduate named Charley Kline, under the eye of Crocker and Cerf, who put on a telephone headset to coordinate with a researcher at SRI while typing..
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Spacewar highlighted three aspects of the hacker culture that became themes of the digital age. First, it was created collaboratively. "We were able to build it together, working as a team, which is how we liked to do things," Russell said. Second, it was free and open-source software. "People asked for copies of the source code, and of course we gave them out." Of course--that was in a time and place when software yearned to be free. Third..
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Only through the personal awareness and "inward conviction" that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded."
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There is an inspiring lesson in how Kilby and Noyce personally handled the question of who invented the microchip. They were both decent people; they came from tight-knit small communities in the Midwest and were well grounded. Unlike Shockley, they did not suffer from a toxic mix of ego and insecurity. Whenever the topic of credit for the invention came up, each was generous in praising the contributions of the other. It soon became accept..
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In 1967 Kilby and his team produced almost what Haggerty envisioned. It could do only four tasks (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) and was a bit heavy (more than two pounds) and not very cheap ($150).21 But it was a huge success. A new market had been created for a device people had not known they needed. And following the inevitable trajectory, it kept getting smaller, more powerful, and cheaper. By 1972 the price of a pocket calculato..
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finally decided on Integrated Electronics Corp. That wasn't very thrilling, either, but it had the virtue that it could be abridged--as Intel.
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I designed the Apple I because I wanted to give it away for free to other people," said Wozniak."
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Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.
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When one early employee wanted to see the company's organization chart, Noyce made an X in the center of a page and then drew a bunch of other Xs around it, with lines leading to each. The employee was at the center, and the others were people he would be dealing with.
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The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. We made the iPod for ourselves, and 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 t..
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Microsoft's success represented an aesthetic flaw in the way the universe worked. "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste," he later said. "I don't mean that in a small way. I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product."116 The primary reason for Microsoft's success was that it was willing and eager to li..
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A break came when Polish intelligence officers created a machine based on a captured German coder that was able to crack some of the Enigma codes. By the time the Poles showed the British their machine, however, it had been rendered ineffective because the Germans had added two more rotors and two more plugboard connections to their Enigma machines.
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