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| 91d15ab | Few readers will be shocked by the news that extrinsic motivators are a poor substitute for genuine interest in what one is doing. What is likely to be far more surprising and disturbing is the further point that rewards, like punishments, actually undermine the intrinsic motivation that promotes optimal performance. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| a1d4cad | Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was for the impressive results found ten years later. Instead, both of these things may have been due to something about their home environment. If that's true, there's no reason to believe that enhancing children's ability to defer gratification would be beneficial: It was j.. | self-control self-discipline | Alfie Kohn | |
| d006c53 | Thomas Gordon said it well: "Children sometimes know better than parents when they are sleepy or hungry; know better the qualities of their friends, their own aspirations and goals, how their various teachers treat them; know better the urges and needs within their bodies, whom they love and whom they don't, what they value and what they don't."4 In any case, we can't always assume that because we're more mature we necessarily have more ins.. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 1d90f52 | How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them. | Alfie Kohn | ||
| 7072fa8 | kn kl ktb 'qrw'h `lm qy'm bdhth 'lj' lyh. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 483122c | Someday, Sarah, someone will come along and give you the moon, and the stars too. | stars | Betty Neels | |
| 4e4619a | She wanted desperately to put out her hand and clutch his arm and explain why she was sad, and not because of Tom, who had suddenly become quite unimportant, but because she loved him so much and he didn't care two straws for her. 'I'm very happy,' she said a shade too loudly. As the waiter went past she took another glass of champagne. 'Happy? Oh yes, and I'm sure you will be-- -because you will make your own happiness. You'll tend it with.. | Betty Neels | ||
| d8bbcee | He stood back smiling while they shook hands and murmured politely, and Amelia, meeting the Dutchman's sleepy gaze, had a sudden strange feeling, as though everything had changed; that nothing would ever be the same again; that there was no one else there, only herself and this giant of a man, still staring at her. | Betty Neels | ||
| b848dac | What, then, of the liberated slaves and Indians? The saddest part of the story and perhaps the most revealing is that no one bothered to say. None of the accounts either of Drake's voyage or of the Roanoke colony mentions what became of them. | Edmund S. Morgan | ||
| 70e1953 | And he wanted no more of those other Puritan specialties: schools and books. In Virginia, he said, "I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!" | Edmund S. Morgan | ||
| 7f050de | Oh, John is clever enough. But what do brains avail a man if he does lack for backbone? | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 2f00423 | War is the least productive of men's pastimes, and the most indulgent. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 4526754 | Poor Wales, so far from Heaven, so close to England! | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 8037da7 | Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 49c5974 | I've never been so hungry that I was willing to lick honey off thorns. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| f3b78c1 | Hell and furies!" Eleanor had begun to pace, her skirts swirling about her ankles. "What was he thinking?" "When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wine cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used." | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| fdc20ae | Monday, May 27: Memorial Day was sunny and warm. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bdd9ba6 | From the earliest days at Apple, I realized that we thrived when we created intellectual property. If people copied or stole our software, we'd be out of business. If it weren't protected, there'd be no incentive for us to make new software or product designs. If protection of intellectual property begins to disappear, creative companies will disappear or never get started. But there's a simpler reason: It's wrong to steal. It hurts other p.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bbda6ef | He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature." It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 91b71b9 | Dnes se razviva nov sviat na s'krovena, lichna moshch - moshchta na otdelniia chovek da se obrazova sam, sam da t'rsi vd'khnovenie, sam da oformia sredata si i da spodelia prezhiviavaniiata si s onzi, koito se interesuva ot tiakh. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1925460 | It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e46122c | Steve had a TEAC reel-to-reel and massive quantities of Dylan bootlegs," Kottke recalled. "He was both really cool and high-tech." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e3af36f | Insert quarter, avoid Klingons. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 753a22a | Mr. Franklin kept a horn book always in his pocket in which he minuted all his invitations to dinner, and Mr. Lee said it was the only thing in which he was punctual | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 890a6c7 | When part of this ecosystem was lacking, such as for John Atanasoff at Iowa State or Charles Babbage in the shed behind his London home, great concepts ended up being consigned to history's basement. And when great teams lacked passionate visionaries, such as Penn after Mauchly and Eckert left, Princeton after von Neumann, or Bell Labs after Shockley, innovation slowly withered. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3f70578 | He kept asking Kay and others for an assessment of "trends" that foretold what the future might hold for the company. During one maddening session, Kay, whose thoughts often seemed tailored to go directly from his tongue to wikiquotes, shot back a line that was to become PARC's creed: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."60" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| df236e8 | The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 51502b3 | The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4d682ed | Baby You're a Rich Man | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8d97c09 | I remember him telling me that engineering was the highest level of importance you could reach in the world," Steve Wozniak later recalled. "It takes society to a new level." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ec76ba6 | The Apple Marketing Philosophy" that stressed three points. The first was empathy, an intimate connection with the feelings of the customer: "We will truly understand their needs better than any other company." The second was focus: "In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities." The third and equally important principle, awkwardly named, was impute. It emphasized tha.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| daa5405 | At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. "No," he replied, "because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them." Then he pulled out a device that was about the size of a desk diary. "Do you want to see something neat?" When he flipped it open, it turned out to be a mock-up of a computer that could fit on your lap, with a keyboard and scr.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e86d67e | Now kids get a MacBook and regard it as an appliance. They treat it like a refrigerator and expect it to be filled with good things, but they don't know how it works. They don't fully understand what I knew, and my parents knew, which was what you could do with a computer was limited only by your imagination."8" -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a76e924 | Jobs put his hand on Ellison's left shoulder, pulled him so close that their noses almost touched, and said, "Larry, this is why it's really important that I'm your friend. You don't need any more money." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5d2377b | Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the grea.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| eb47913 | Mauchly and Eckert should be at the top of the list of people who deserve credit for inventing the computer, not because the ideas were all their own but because they had the ability to draw ideas from multiple sources, add their own innovations, execute their vision by building a competent team, and have the most influence on the course of subsequent developments. The machine they built was the first general-purpose electronic computer. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5324fa8 | Saya yakin bahwa rasa cinta adalah guru yang lebih baik ketimbang kewajiban, paling tidak bagi saya." -Einstein-" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bc28edf | He was incredibly phony, a complete poseur... He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn't. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6f03c81 | Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong. | innovation steve-jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| 9fff6aa | The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the same house." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cd7bb71 | You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 369f244 | But the biggest news that month was the departure from Apple, yet again, of its cofounder, Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was then quietly working as a midlevel engineer in the Apple II division, serving as a humble mascot of the roots of the company and staying as far away from management and corporate politics as he could. He felt, with justification, that Jobs was not appreciative of the Apple II, which remained the cash cow of the company and a.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 57b53db | The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| aa9a1c8 | He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that." Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts." | Walter Isaacson |