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Being a brash entrepreneur, Roberts responded to the crisis by deciding to launch a whole new business. He had always been fascinated by computers, and he assumed that other hobbyists felt the same. His goal, he enthused to a friend, was building a computer for the masses that would eliminate the Computer Priesthood once and for all. After studying the instruction set for the Intel 8080, Roberts concluded that MITS could make a do-it-yourse..
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We had to learn their vocabularies in order to be able to run their problems. I could switch my vocabulary and speak highly technical for the programmers, and then tell the same things to the managers a few hours later but with a totally different vocabulary." Innovation requires articulation."
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One of the basic lessons for innovation is to stay focused.
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If you reveal TMI, it can make people feel a little less alone.
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Search the phrase "the man who invented" on Amazon and you get 1,860 book results. 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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In the 1980s I thrilled to the static and screech that modems made when they opened for you the weirdly magical realm of online services and bulletin boards,
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Eckert, with his passion for detail and perfection, was the chief engineer. Eckert became so dedicated to the project that he would sometimes sleep next to the machine. Once, as a joke, two engineers picked up his cot and gently moved him to an identical room one floor up; when he awoke he briefly feared the machine had been stolen.
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At that time in IBM you had to wear a white shirt, dark pants and a black tie with your badge stapled to your shoulder or something," said Steve Bristow, an engineer. "At Atari the work people did counted more than how they looked."
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An invention, especially one as complex as the computer, usually comes not from an individual brainstorm but from a collaboratively woven tapestry of creativity.
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a table and diagram showing exactly how the algorithm would be fed into the computer, step by step, including two recursive loops. It was a numbered list of coding instructions that included destination registers, operations, and commentary--something that would be familiar to any C++ coder today.
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CONTENTS Epigraph 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
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The combination of GNU and Linux created an operating system that has been ported to more hardware platforms, ranging from the world's ten biggest supercomputers to embedded systems in mobile phones, than any other operating system. "Linux is subversive," wrote Eric Raymond. "Who would have thought that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the..
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Gates's "Letter to Hobbyists," complaining about the unauthorized sharing of Microsoft BASIC, asked in a chiding way, "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?" Torvalds found that an odd outlook. He and Gates were from two very different cultures, the communist-tinged radical academia of Helsinki versus the corporate elite of Seattle. Gates may have ended up with the bigger house, but Torvalds reaped antiestablishment adulation...
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ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman
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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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