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| 342ceb0 | Bushnell agreed. "There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve,"he said. "He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, 'Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 40a634c | simply enjoy giving more than receiving in every respect, do not take myself nor the doings of the masses seriously, am not ashamed of my weaknesses and vices, and naturally take things as they come with equanimity and humor. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ada11ef | At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e5f0d1a | rock--Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ff0c676 | Being a Jew was a disadvantage; being a nonbeliever who claimed no religion was a disqualifier. The empire required that all of its servants, including professors, be a member of some religion. On his official forms, Einstein had written that he had none. "Einstein is as unpractical as a child in cases like this," Friedrich Adler's wife noted." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cfbe62a | Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3cfa832 | Many years later, after Friedland had become a billionaire copper and gold mining executive--working out of Vancouver, Singapore, and Mongolia--I met him for drinks in New York. That evening I emailed Jobs and mentioned my encounter. He telephoned me from California within an hour and warned me against listening to Friedland. He said that when Friedland was in trouble because of environmental abuses committed by some of his mines, he had tr.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 359bb32 | His comparisons between man-made machinery and the handiwork of nature produced in him a deep reverence for the latter. "Though human ingenuity may make various inventions," he wrote, "it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, more direct than does Nature; because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."15" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5c130fb | Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b1aa26c | If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us. | Alexander Suvorov | ||
| abb24dd | While painting The Last Supper, Leonardo would sometimes stare at the work for an hour, finally make one small stroke, and then leave. He told Duke Ludovico that creativity requires time for ideas to marinate and intuitions to gel. "Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least," he explained, "for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.".. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bcc73ec | An academic career in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts creates a danger of intellectual superficiality," he said." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 04b439b | La Bella Principessa: The Story of the New Masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci.31 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 794e709 | deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him, I heard from him every now and then. At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-laced apple. He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6c358cc | He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7a37146 | The open sniping between Jobs and Eisner began in the summer of 2002 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 086a5bb | Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2463b3e | According to the assumption to be considered here, when a light ray is propagated from a point, the energy is not continuously distributed over an increasing space but consists of a finite number of energy quanta which are localized at points in space and which can be produced and absorbed only as complete units. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0fc1aba | new sister for the first time, he was led to believe that she was like a wonderful toy that he would enjoy. His response was to look at her and exclaim, "Yes, but where are the wheels?"12 It may not have been the most perceptive of questions," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cbad686 | more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d019b4e | it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority." 57" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8442cbb | Leonardo fue pionero en un nuevo estilo que trataba los cuadros narrativos, e incluso los retratos, como explicaciones psicologicas. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4c0e613 | Adolf Hitler polled highest as the "greatest living person." Albert Einstein was second." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1b02aed | When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau Inn refused her a room. So Einstein invited her to stay at his house on Mercer Street, in what was a deeply personal as well as a publicly symbolic gesture. Two | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ff181f1 | As a Jew who had grown up in Germany, Einstein was acutely sensitive to such discrimination. "The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me," he wrote in an essay called "The Negro Question" for Pageant magazine. "I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b2ce478 | The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations," he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. "The conduct of the German intellectuals--viewed as a class--was no better than that of the mob." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0f8b1e7 | the shadows caressed the folds. I tried to see how light that was reflected from one object subtly colored the shadows of another object. I noticed how the glint of a lustrous spot on a shiny surface moved when I tilted my head. When I looked at a distant tree and a near one, I tried to visualize the lines of perspective. When I saw an eddy of water, I compared it to a ringlet of hair. When I couldn't understand a math concept, I did the be.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a3cf702 | I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b834fc1 | Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief object of science. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0aadc15 | Einstein's pacifism, world federalism, and aversion to nationalism were part of a political outlook that also included a passion for social justice, a sympathy for underdogs, an antipathy toward racism, and a predilection toward socialism. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fce5baa | The exponential growth of this industry was correlated with the phenomenon famously discovered by Moore, who in 1965 drew a graph of the speed of integrated circuits, based on the number of transistors that could be placed on a chip, and showed that it doubled about every two years, a trajectory that could be expected to continue. This was reaffirmed in 1971, when Intel was able to etch a complete central processing unit onto one chip, the .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 47df051 | my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1184645 | He tried to maintain a middle ground between those who were reflexively anti-American and those who were reflexively anti-Soviet. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 41dd914 | Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks. | Alexander Suvorov | ||
| 25027bc | I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 69f61bd | Berkeley to Jobs's house | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3001cc4 | While a student in McCollum's class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher's all- time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry in the class. Stephen Wozniak, whose younger brother had been on a swim team with Jobs, was almost five years older than Jobs and far more knowledgeable about electronics. But emotionally and socially he was still a high school geek. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c160062 | For the generation that's grown up in a world where computers are the norm, smartphones feel like fifth limbs and music comes from the Internet rather than record and CD stores, Steve Jobs is must-read history. . . . The intimate chapters, where Jobs's personal side shines through, 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." --Asso.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0afbad2 | one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Jobs felt that design simplicity should be linked to making products easy to use. Those goals do not always go together. Sometimes a design can be so sleek and simple that a user finds it intimidating or unfriendly to navigate. "The main thing in our design is that we have to" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ebc840a | Henckels knives | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1351b4b | floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital, sick with duodenal | Walter Isaacson | ||
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Me gusta pensar que hay algo que sobrevive despues de morir --comento--. Resulta extrano pensar que puedas acumular toda esta experiencia y tal vez algo de sabiduria, y que simplemente desaparezca, asi que quiero creer que hay algo que sobrevive, que a lo mejor tu conciencia resiste>>. Se quedo callado durante un buen rato. < |
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| 4e845fd | Jobs began to accompany Wozniak to Homebrew meetings, carrying the TV monitor and helping to set things up. The meetings now attracted more than one hundred enthusiasts and had been moved to the auditorium of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Presiding with a pointer and a free-form manner was Lee Felsenstein, another embodiment of the merger between the world of computing and the counterculture. He was an engineering school dropout, .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 86007bc | serves as a history of digital technology. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson's ability to shape the story as a kind of archetypal fantasy: the flawed hero, the noble quest, the holy grail, the | Walter Isaacson |