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The fifteenth century of Leonardo and Columbus and Gutenberg was a time of invention, exploration, and the spread of knowledge by new technologies. In short, it was a time like our own. That is why we have much to learn from Leonardo. His ability to combine art, science, technology, the humanities, and imagination remains an enduring recipe for creativity. So, too, was his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left..
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he had it completely gutted and rebuilt. Walls
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off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged it to start ticking
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He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."23"
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Compromisers may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies.
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As the film progressed, Jobs became ever more excited about it. He had been talking to various companies, ranging from Hallmark to Microsoft, about selling Pixar, but
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The Adoption
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went to the cemetery he had chosen and were driven around in a golf cart. There were no plots available next to those of Paul and Clara Jobs, and Laurene hated the other options that she was shown, where the headstones were crammed into rows on an undistinguished, flat piece of land. But like her husband, she was imaginative and willful. She pointed to a bucolic ridge crowned by one of the area's last remaining apricot orchards, the type of..
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He believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful
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From Mike Markkula he had learned the importance of packaging and presentation. People do judge a book by its cover, so for the box of the Macintosh, Jobs chose a full-color design and kept trying to make it look better. "He got the guys to redo it fifty times," recalled Alain Rossmann, a member of the Mac team who married Joanna Hoffman. "It was going to be thrown in the trash as soon as the consumer opened it, but he was obsessed by how i..
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The relationship lurched up and down for five years. Redse hated living in his sparsely furnished Woodside house. Jobs had hired a hip young couple, who had once worked at Chez Panisse, as housekeepers and vegetarian cooks, and they made her feel like an interloper. She would occasionally move out to an apartment of her own in Palo Alto, especially after one of her torrential arguments with Jobs. "Neglect is a form of abuse," she once scraw..
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2. In his kitchen: "Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought." 3. At Stanford, 1982: "How many of you are virgins? How many of you have taken LSD?"
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most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively.
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My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything: the people you hire, who gets ..
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I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis," he later said. His intensity, however, made it difficult for him to achieve inner peace; his Zen awareness was"
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Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.
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Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue." So in the Junto, he began to work on his use of silence and gentle dialogue. One method, which he had developed during his mock debates with John Collins in Boston and then when discoursing with Keimer, was to pursue topics through soft, Socratic queries."
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Einstein consideraba que la lealtad a un partido implicaba renunciar a cierta independencia de pensamiento,
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El buen arte se aparta de la moda, no la sigue>>,
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En los primeros treinta anos de tu vida, tu defines tus habitos. Durante los ultimos treinta, tus habitos te definen a ti"."
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Si quieres vivir de forma creativa, como un artista, no debes mirar demasiado hacia atras. Tienes que estar dispuesto a recoger todo lo que eres y todo lo que has hecho y arrojarlo por la ventana.
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He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.
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Jobs had spent so many afternoons. Jony Ive had arranged for the table to be brought to the graveside. There were fifty or so family members and friends in attendance,
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BILL GATES. The other computer wunderkind born in 1955. ANDY HERTZFELD. Playful,
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The company had not only a new logo, but a new name. No longer was it Next. It was NeXT. Others might not have understood the need to obsess over a logo, much less pay $100,000 for one. But for Jobs it meant that NeXT was starting life with a world-class feel and identity, even if it hadn't yet designed its first product. As Markkula had taught him, a great company must be able to impute its values from the first impression it makes.
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A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument," Leonardo da Vinci"
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As the Leonardo scholar Charles Hope has pointed out, "He had no real understanding of the way in which the growth of knowledge was a cumulative and collaborative process."41 Although he would occasionally let visitors glimpse his work, he did not seem to realize or care that the importance of research comes from its dissemination."
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Cook reduced the number of Apple's key suppliers from a hundred to twenty-four, forced them to cut better deals to keep the business, convinced many to locate next to Apple's plants, and closed ten of the company's nineteen warehouses. By reducing the places where inventory could pile up, he reduced inventory. Jobs had cut inventory from two months' worth of product down to one by early 1998. By September of that year, Cook had gotten it do..
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Algunas teorias cientificas dependen primordialmente de la induccion, es decir, de analizar un monton de hallazgos experimentales y luego encontrar teorias que expliquen las pautas empiricas.
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Otras dependen mas de la deduccion, esto es, de empezar partiendo de principios y postulados elegantes que se consideran sagrados, y luego deducir las consecuencias de ellos.
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Jobs and Kottke became serious vegetarians during their freshman year. "Steve got into it even more than I did," said Kottke. "He was living off Roman Meal cereal." They would go shopping at a farmers' co-op, where Jobs would buy a box of cereal, which would last a week, and other bulk health food. "He would buy flats of dates and almonds and lots of carrots, and he got a Champion juicer and we'd make carrot juice and carrot salads. There i..
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Vegetarianism and Zen Buddhism, meditation and spirituality, acid and rock--Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era. And even though he barely indulged it at Reed, there was still an undercurrent of electronic geekiness in his soul that would someday combine surprisingly well with the rest of the mix. Robert Friedland
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Este es un homenaje a los locos. A los inadaptados. A los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. A las fichas redondas en los huecos cuadrados. A los que ven las cosas de forma diferente. A ellos no les gustan las reglas, y no sienten ningun respeto por el statu quo. Puedes citarlos, discrepar de ellos, glorificarlos o vilipendiarlos. Casi lo unico que no puedes hacer es ignorarlos. Porque ellos cambian las cosas. Son los que hacen avanzar al gener..
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After you interact with Ginevra de' Benci long enough, what at first seem like a vacant face and distant stare begin to appear suffused with a haunting tinge of emotion. She seems pensive and ruminating, perhaps about her marriage or the departure of Bembo, or because of some deeper mystery. Her life was sad; she was sickly and remained childless. But she also had an inner intensity. She wrote poetry, one line of which survives: "I ask your..
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Una inteligencia que conociera todas las fuerzas que actuan en la naturaleza en un instante dado, asi como las posiciones momentaneas de todas las cosas en el universo, podria abarcar en una sola formula los movimientos de los cuerpos de mayor tamano junto con los de los atomos mas ligeros del mundo; para el no habria nada incierto, y ante sus ojos estaria presente tanto el futuro como el pasado>>.
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El de relatividad es un concepto sencillo. Afirma que las leyes fundamentales de la fisica son las mismas cualquiera que sea nuestro estado de movimiento.
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their ability to work as teams made them even more creative. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.
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la intuicion no es mas que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.>>
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La esperanza es que, dentro de no muchos anos, el cerebro humano y las maquinas computadoras esten unidos de un modo muy estrecho --escribio--, y que la asociacion resultante piense como ningun cerebro humano lo haya hecho jamas y procese datos de un modo nunca atisbado por las maquinas de gestion de la informacion que conocemos hoy.>>
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el credo del PARC: <>.
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Lograbas hacer lo imposible porque no te dabas cuenta de que era imposible.>>
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la imaginacion es mas importante que el conocimiento>>.[6]
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The company had not only a new logo, but a new name. No longer was it Next. It was NeXT. Others might not have understood the need to obsess over a logo, much less pay $ 100,000 for one. But for Jobs it meant that NeXT was starting life with a world- class feel and identity, even if it hadn't yet designed its first product. As Markkula had taught him, a great company must be able to impute its values from the first impression it makes.
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