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Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground. Instead of having a single cause, the great advances of 1937 came from a combination of capabilities, ideas, and needs that coincided in multiple places.
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order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
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caso de John Atanasoff, el olvidado inventor de Iowa, la concepcion de la idea es solo el primer paso. Lo que importa realmente es la ejecucion.
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The roots of the personal computer can be found in the Free Speech Movement that arose at Berkeley in 1964 and in the Whole Earth Catalog, which did the marketing for the do-it-yourself ideals behind the personal computer movement.
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The thing that Von Neumann had, which I've noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that's important.
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The Pepsi Generation campaign, he said, sold not a product but a lifestyle and an optimistic outlook.
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I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer.
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Long live impudence!
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When Jobs saw the corporate fitness center, he was astonished that executives had an area, with its own whirlpool, separate from that of the regular employees.
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Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?'
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authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be
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Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.
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She attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville, where the tuition was $76 per year. (In 2013 it was approximately $14,000 per year for in-state residents, a twelve-fold increase after adjusting for inflation.)
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American science and engineering was even more sexist than it is today," Jennings said."
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Hertzfeld explained that he needed to get his Apple II DOS program in good enough shape to hand it over to someone. "You're just wasting your time with that!" Jobs replied. "Who cares about the Apple II? The Apple II will be dead in a few years. The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you're going to start on it now!" With that, Jobs yanked out the power cord to Hertzfeld's Apple II, causing the code he was working on to vanish."
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Congress decided to put him on a committee to write a declaration explaining why the colonies were seeking independence. It was back in the days when Congress knew how to appoint really good committees: Franklin and Jefferson and John Adams were on it. They knew that leadership required not merely asserting values, but finding a balance when values conflict. We can see that in the deft editing of the famous sentence that opens the second pa..
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the rivalry between the big and little states almost tore the convention apart. Their dispute was over whether the legislative branch should be proportioned by population or by equal votes per state. Finally, Franklin arose to make a motion on behalf of a compromise that would have a House proportioned by population and a Senate with equal votes per state. "When a broad table is to be made, and the edges of planks do not fit, the artist tak..
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One evening Wozniak, who had been floating into and out of Apple for the previous two years, wandered into the Macintosh building. Jobs grabbed him and said, "Come over here and look at this." He pulled out a VCR and played the ad. "I was astounded," Woz recalled. "I thought it was the most incredible thing." When Jobs said the board had decided not to run it during the Super Bowl, Wozniak asked what the cost of the time slot was. Jobs told..
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Every six months he would take most of his team on a two-day retreat at a nearby resort.
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poetry as a language within a language,
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It would be better to miss than to turn out the wrong thing.
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with Jobs, he became a keen observer of the phenomenon. "The reality distortion field was a confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand," he said. There was little that could shield you from the force, Hertzfeld discovered. "Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware"
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It is 1958," he began. "IBM passes up a chance to buy a young fledgling company that has invented a new technology called xerography. Two years later, Xerox was born, and IBM has been kicking themselves ever since."
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One of the engineers told Atkinson that there was no way to build such a mouse commercially. After Atkinson complained to Jobs over dinner, he arrived at the office the next day to discover that Jobs had fired the engineer. When his replacement met Atkinson, his first words were, "I can build the mouse."
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didn't care to make their product perfect, they were a bozo." At the West Coast Computer Faire" --
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The comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a machine will be better appreciated by another machine.
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unexpected results drove new theories.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything,
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En 2011 se alcanzo un hito significativo: Apple y Google gastaron mas dinero en pleitos y pagos relacionados con patentes que en la investigacion y el desarrollo de nuevos productos.
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Bell Labs showed how sustained innovation could occur when people with a variety of talents were brought together,
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Grace was a good man,
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taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned
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Computer innovators, like other pioneers, can find themselves left behind if they get stuck in their ways.
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The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.
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En palabras de George Dyson: <>.
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focused, yet he dazzled and baffled colleagues by suddenly changing his mind when he realized he needed to think different.
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easy. It took scientists forty years to map the neurological activity of the one-millimeter-long roundworm, which has 302 neurons and 8,000 synapses.I The human brain has 86 billion neurons and up to 150 trillion synapses.15
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Kissinger traces the balances made in foreign policy, including that of realism and idealism, from the times of Cardinal Richelieu through chapters on Theodore Roosevelt the realist and Woodrow Wilson the idealist. Kissinger, a European refugee who has read Metternich more avidly than Jefferson, is unabashedly in the realist camp. "No other nation," he wrote in Diplomacy, "has ever rested its claim to international leadership on its altruis..
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great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large
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number of sources.
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The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win
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creativity came through chance encounters.
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Si alguna vez surge una raza mentalmente sobrehumana --dijo en cierta ocasion Edward Teller, el creador de la bomba de hidrogeno--, sus miembros se pareceran a Johnny von Neumann.>>
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they'd ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.
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