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| b7e7875 | 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. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5172065 | 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 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a6a5495 | they have to try to figure out where their opponent's pieces are. "The wildest" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c604814 | 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. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c8ef53e | 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 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 15a4cb1 | 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.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8b95b3c | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e45425f | 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. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a0f5cab | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6518acb | 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. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a50c288 | 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 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 355329f | I had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time's editors and extol his new Macintosh. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2933071 | 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.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 11d4ed2 | 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. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 430406e | 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 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 32ea747 | Una de las claves para que una innovacion tenga exito es simplificar el acceso del usuario. Para que los blogs se convirtiesen en | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 24012d6 | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c2b194d | 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" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 56191bf | I always understood the beauty of things made by hand,' Jony told Steve Jobs's biographer, Walter Isaacson. | Leander Kahney | ||
| 7566b7e | Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage. | Alexander Suvorov | ||
| a207418 | We have a better product than soap or automobiles. We have eternal life. --Reverend Jim Bakker8 | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 2b9c25c | port of Sexi | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 2c7183c | One cannot learn all about what it's like to run a marathon by interviewing only those who drop out--but one can learn something. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| f540f22 | One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance. You are normally oblivious of your own blind spot, and people are typically amazed to discover that we don't see colors in our peripheral vision. It seems as if we do, but we don't, as you can prove to yourself by wiggling colored cards at the edge of your vision--you'll see motion just fine but not be able to identify the color of.. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 9d092c4 | Those who are religious and believe religion to be the best hope of humankind cannot reasonably expect those of us who are skeptical to refrain from expressing our doubts if they themselves are unwilling to put their convictions under the microscope. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 79775c5 | Fire opens the gates of victory. | Alexander Suvorov | ||
| 4432110 | You know what works? Denial. As a coping tool, denial is severely underrated. | Libba Bray | ||
| d39fa2c | Words, I will argue, are the best example of memes, culturally transmitted items that evolve by differential replication--that is, by natural selection. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 407f7f0 | The real danger, I think, is not that machines more intelligent than we are will usurp our role as captains of our destinies, but that we will over-estimate the comprehension of our latest thinking tools, prematurely ceding authority to them far beyond their competence. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| c3647b6 | This is natural selection, plain as day: the islanders have a simple rule: if it returns from the sea intact, copy it! They may have considerable comprehension of the principles of naval architecture that retrospectively endorse their favorite designs, but it is strictly unnecessary. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| bd7710d | WELCOME TO THE PHENOM Suppose | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 19af531 | As I have often noted, a wagon with spoked wheels doesn't just carry grain or freight from place to place; it carries the brilliant idea of a wagon with spoked wheels. The | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| cf7a558 | The case of the frogs is simply an artificially clear instance of what happens in natural selection all the time: exaptation-- | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 2987dd0 | does require anyone who makes the trip to abandon some precious intuitions, but I think that I have at last found ways of making the act of jettisoning these "obvious truths" not just bearable but even delightful: it turns your head inside out, in a way, yielding some striking new perspectives on what is going on." | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| fa83654 | Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things--that takes religion. --Steven Weinberg, 1999 | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 1904a78 | atheists and agnostics can have sacred values, values that are simply not up for re-evaluation at all. I have sacred | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| f013445 | Nobody ever became a famous philosopher by being a champion of ecumenical hybridism. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 2ee2c8e | There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| b242765 | The amount of information obtainable in short order by an inquisitive human being is staggeringly large. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 3b5f5a7 | Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, once you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully set them behind you, and go on to the next big opportunity. But that is not enough: you should actively seek out opportunities to make grand mistakes, just so you can then recover from them. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| d064b10 | he importance and influence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection can scarcely be exaggerated. A century after Darwin's death, the great evolutionary biologist and historian of science, Ernst Mayr, wrote, 'The worldview formed by any thinking person in the Western world after 1859, when On the Origin of Species was published, was by necessity quite different from a worldview formed prior to 1859... The intellectual re.. | Charles Darwin | ||
| d26eaf5 | The more comfort the less courage there is. | Alexander Suvorov | ||
| 8d03772 | Science properly done is one of the humanities, as a fine physics teacher once said. The point of science is to help us understand what we are and how we got here, and for this we need the great stories: the tale of how, once upon a time, there was a Big Bang; the Darwinian epic of the evolution of life on Earth; and now the story we are just beginning to learn how to tell... | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 6c04f90 | Words exist. What are they made of? Air under pressure? Ink? Some instances of the word "cat" are made of ink, and some are made of bursts of acoustic energy in the atmosphere, and some are made of patterns of glowing dots on computer screens, and some occur silently in thoughts, and what they have in common is just that they count as "the same" (tokens of the same type, as philosophers say) say in a system of symbols known as a language. W.. | memes | Daniel C. Dennett |