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| 0bc786c | American science and engineering was even more sexist than it is today," Jennings said." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 14162c1 | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 30a107d | 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.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cfc6849 | 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.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0ced463 | Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself. | Alexander Suvorov | ||
| a13f9d5 | 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.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4509bb9 | Every six months he would take most of his team on a two-day retreat at a nearby resort. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ea987b1 | poetry as a language within a language, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cf0719c | It would be better to miss than to turn out the wrong thing. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| df2eec6 | 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" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f876c59 | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 84d288c | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 56211f3 | didn't care to make their product perfect, they were a bozo." At the West Coast Computer Faire" -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| afe65a3 | The comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a machine will be better appreciated by another machine. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d964111 | unexpected results drove new theories. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 13edfb0 | The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 09dbd84 | 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. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 64d8856 | Bell Labs showed how sustained innovation could occur when people with a variety of talents were brought together, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5003087 | Grace was a good man, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 99ad0a8 | taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cac45bc | Computer innovators, like other pioneers, can find themselves left behind if they get stuck in their ways. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 30aba77 | The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along. | Walter Isaacson | ||
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| f4131c4 | focused, yet he dazzled and baffled colleagues by suddenly changing his mind when he realized he needed to think different. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cd4b052 | 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 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 890f3b7 | 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.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c48d625 | great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 18d3933 | number of sources. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a106828 | The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a9b946c | creativity came through chance encounters. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0c6511c | 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.>> | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 87bb5cf | they'd ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a708cc7 | applause. "I'm very excited," Jobs said. "I'm looking forward to get to reknow" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3f8663f | Yet for all of his popular appeal and surface accessibility, Einstein also came to symbolize the perception that modern physics was something that ordinary laymen could not comprehend, "the province of priest-like experts," in the words of Harvard professor Dudley Herschbach.3 It was not always thus. Galileo and Newton were both great geniuses, but their mechanical cause-and-effect explanation of the world was something that most thoughtful.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c025d91 | By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things. The original Mac team taught me that A-plus players like to work together, and they don't like it if you tolerate B work. Ask any member of that Mac team. They will tell you it was worth the pain. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9337e85 | Andy Hertzfeld joined the Macintosh team, he got a briefing from Bud Tribble, the other software designer, about the huge amount of work that still needed | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fff21c2 | A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f9bc579 | no formal design reviews, so there are no huge decision points. Instead, we can make the decisions fluid. Since we iterate every day and never have dumb-ass presentations, we don't run into major disagreements. On this day Ive was overseeing the creation of a new European power plug and connector for the Macintosh. Dozens of foam models, each with the tiniest variation, have been cast and painted for inspection. Some would find it odd that .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 544ad88 | Computers today are brilliant idiots, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0c4743e | I'm a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight.' | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 474ebc3 | He was working himself up into a fervor of delight while I was shrinking into a rage and thinking, How could you | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3955125 | People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a0e9a54 | hero of the piece was John Draper, a hacker known as Captain Crunch because he had discovered that the sound emitted by the toy whistle that came with the breakfast cereal was the same | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4500743 | then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in | Walter Isaacson |