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The Kleinrock controversy is interesting because it shows that most of the Internet's creators preferred--to use the metaphor of the Internet itself--a system of fully distributed credit. They instinctively isolated and routed around any node that tried to claim more significance than the others. The Internet was born of an ethos of creative collaboration and distributed decision making, and its founders liked to protect that heritage. It b..
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We'd just taken Pixar public, and I was happy being CEO there. I never knew of anyone who served as CEO of two public companies, even temporarily, and I wasn't even sure it was legal. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I was enjoying spending more time with my family. I was torn. I knew Apple was a mess, so I wondered: Do I want to give up this nice lifestyle that I have? What are all the Pixar shareholders going to think? I talked to peopl..
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El dia en que presento el Macintosh, un periodista de Popular Science le pregunto a Jobs que tipo de investigacion de mercados habia llevado a cabo. A lo cual Jobs respondio, burlon: <>.
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Isaacson's biography can be read in several ways. It is on the one hand a history of the most exciting time in the age of computers, when the machines first became personal and later, fashionable accessories. It is also a textbook study of the rise and fall and rise of Apple and the brutal clashes that destroyed friendships and careers. And it is a gadget lover's dream, with fabulous, inside accounts of how the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and i..
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Fred Terman, un antiguo estudiante de doctorado de Vannevar Bush en el MIT que despues seria decano de ingenieria de la Universidad de Stanford,
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I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics," he said. "Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do." It was as if he were suggesting themes for his biography (and in this instance, at least, the theme turned out to be valid). The creativ..
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In a colorful part of the paper, he presented a fictional scenario in which he posed questions to the machine. He imagined the machine's activity: "Over the week-end it retrieved over 10,000 documents, scanned them all for sections rich in relevant material, analyzed all the rich sections into statements in a high-order predicate calculus, and entered the statements into the data base."
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Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page."
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Steve Jobs's attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them away for free, and he was a Zen devotee who made a pilgrimage to India and then decided that his calling was to create a business. And yet somehow these attitudes seemed to weave together rather than conflict.
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Many people who celebrate the arts and the humanities, who applaud vigorously the tributes to their importance in our schools, will proclaim without shame (and sometimes even joke) that they don't understand math or physics. They extoll the virtues of learning Latin, but they are clueless about how to write an algorithm or tell BASIC from C++, Python from Pascal. They consider people who don't know Hamlet from Macbeth to be Philistines, yet..
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intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured
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with MartinLogan speakers and a hundred CDs. The software team was visible from the lobby in a fishbowl-like
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Durante la ausencia de Shockley y Brattain, la guerra transformo los Laboratorios Bell, que entraron a formar parte del triangulo integrado por el gobierno, las universidades de investigacion y el sector privado.
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Durante los primeros anos despues de Pearl Harbor, los Laboratorios Bell se hicieron cargo de casi mil proyectos distintos para el ejercito, desde equipos de radio para tanques hasta sistemas de comunicaciones para pilotos que llevaban mascaras de oxigeno, pasando por maquinas de cifrado para codificar mensajes secretos>>.10
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they have to try to figure out where their opponent's pieces are. "The wildest"
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with all his faults and craziness, leave a deep impression. There's humor, too . . . it's a rich portrait of one of the greatest minds of our generation.
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Jobs took McCollum's class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device with a photocell that would switch on a circuit when exposed to light, something any high school
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Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off." Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death, because they know they are guilty. Outside of Search, Google's products--Android, Google Docs..
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Many people suppose that computing machines are replacements for intelligence and have cut down the need for original thought," Wiener wrote. "This is not the case."14 The more powerful the computer, the greater the premium that will be placed on connecting it with imaginative, creative, high-level human thinking."
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People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.
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We believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone," Jobs declared in an email to a customer. "Folks who want porn can buy an Android."
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La innovacion se produce por fases. En el caso del transistor, primero fue la invencion, liderada por Shockley, Bardeen y Brattain; despues la produccion, encabezada por ingenieros como Teal, y por ultimo, e igualmente importante, fueron los emprendedores quienes encontraron la forma de crear nuevos mercados. Pat Haggerty, el intrepido jefe de Teal, constituia un llamativo caso practico de este tercer paso en el proceso de la innovacion.
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story, I interviewed more than a hundred friends, relatives, competitors, adversaries, and colleagues. His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish. In fact she strongly encouraged
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I had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time's editors and extol his new Macintosh.
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One day Jobs came into the cubicle of Larry Kenyon, an engineer who was working on the Macintosh operating system, and complained that it was taking too long to boot up. Kenyon started to explain, but Jobs cut him off. "If it could save a person's life, would you find a way to shave ten seconds off the boot time?" he asked. Kenyon allowed that he probably could. Jobs went to a whiteboard and showed that if there were five million people usi..
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There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
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afterward, I found myself rather captivated, as so many others have been over the years, by his engaging intensity. We stayed in touch, even after he was ousted from
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Una de las claves para que una innovacion tenga exito es simplificar el acceso del usuario. Para que los blogs se convirtiesen en
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Ive was a fan of the German industrial designer Dieter Rams, who worked for the electronics firm Braun. Rams preached the gospel of "Less but better," Weniger aber besser, and likewise Jobs and Ive wrestled with each new design to see how much they could simplify it."
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When he was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on the cover of Time, and soon thereafter he began offering me his ideas for a series we were doing on the most influential people of the century. He had launched his "Think Different"
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CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving
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Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA "ANDY" CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the Pixar deal, then clashed with Jobs. LARRY ELLISON. CEO of Oracle and personal friend of Jobs."
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CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the
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EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in dealing with content companies. A
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They were still walking and talking when the stores opened at 10, and they went into Eddie Bauer. It had an entrance off the mall and another off the parking lot. Jobs decided that Apple stores should have only one entrance, which would make it easier to control the experience. And the Eddie Bauer store, they agreed, was too long and narrow. It was important that customers intuitively grasp the layout of a store as soon as they entered. The..
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DEBORAH "DEBI" COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA "ANDY" CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who..
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DEBORAH "DEBI" COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA "ANDY" CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who..
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KOBUN CHINO. A St Zen master in California who became Jobs's spiritual teacher. LEE CLOW. Advertising wizard who created Apple's "1984" ad and worked with Jobs for three decades. DEBORAH "DEBI" COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in deal..
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graphics for the Mac intosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York City. NOLAN BUSHNELL. Founder of Atari and entrepreneurial role model for Jobs. BILL CAMPBELL. Apple marketing chief during Jobs's first stint at Apple and board member and confidant after Jobs's return in 1997. EDWIN CATMULL. A co..
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who became Jobs's spiritual teacher. LEE CLOW. Advertising wizard who created Apple's "1984" ad and worked with Jobs for three decades. DEBORAH "DEBI" COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple,"
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Que me motivaba? Creo que la mayoria de las personas creativas quieren expresar su agradecimiento por ser capaces de aprovechar el trabajo que otros han llevado a cabo antes que ellos. Yo no invente el lenguaje ni las matematicas que utilizo. Produzco solo una pequena parte de mis alimentos, y ninguna de mis prendas de ropa esta hecha por mi. Todo lo que hago depende de otros miembros de nuestra especie y de los hombros a los que nos subimo..
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What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's been done by others before us. I didn't invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to th..
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What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's been done by others before us. I didn't invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to th..
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assessing Ronald Reagan. There are so many basic questions that even his friends cannot quite figure out, such as (to start with the most basic one): Was he smart? From the brilliant-versus-clueless question flows even more complex ones. Was he a visionary who clung to a few verities, or an amiable dunce who floated obliviously above facts and nuances? Was he a stubborn ideological coot or a clever negotiator able to change course when deal..
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