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| 081a42d | sculpture for their desks, and mass-market consumers were not eager to spend twice what | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e2a5780 | NeXT computer. But gradually he was learning his lesson. In building devices like the iPod, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7e53fed | Ada's ability to appreciate the beauty of mathematics is a gift that eludes many people, including some who think of themselves as intellectual. She realized that math was a lovely language, one that describes the harmonies of the universe and can be poetic at times. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1f4c80b | had just fired somebody that day, and I imagined what it was like for that person to tell his family | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d9e3c0d | A lot of the credit, too, should go to Turing, for developing the concept of a universal computer and then being part of a hands-on team at Bletchley Park. How you rank the historic contributions of the others depends partly on the criteria you value. If you are enticed by the romance of lone inventors and care less about who most influenced the progress of the field, you might put Atanasoff and Zuse high. But the main lesson to draw from t.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6af91e0 | The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3884914 | great company must be able to impute its values from the first impression it makes. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 971a0e9 | Babbage was charming when he wished, but he could also be cranky, stubborn, and defiant, like most innovators. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4bf0e11 | the device had the property of transresistance and should have a name similar to devices such as the thermistor and varistor, Pierce proposed transistor. Exclaimed Brattain, "That's it!" The naming process still had to go through a formal poll of all the other engineers, but transistor easily won the election over five other options.35 On June 30, 1948, the press gathered in the auditorium of Bell Labs' old building on West Street in Manhat.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cfdcdf7 | Basic research leads to new knowledge," Bush wrote. "It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bec2601 | In the seventy years since von Neumann effectively placed his "Draft Report" on the EDVAC into the public domain, the trend for computers has been, with a few notable exceptions, toward a more proprietary approach. In 2011 a milestone was reached: Apple and Google spent more on lawsuits and payments involving patents than they did on research and development of new products.64" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2939ee8 | The idea that John Lasseter pitched was called "Toy Story." It sprang from a belief, which he and Jobs shared, that products have an essence to them, a purpose for which they were made. If the object were to have feelings, these would be based on its desire to fulfill its essence. The purpose of a glass, for example, is to hold water; if it had feelings, it would be happy when full and sad when empty. The essence of a computer screen is to .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 804a97c | But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c96ba5a | The reality is that Ada's contribution was both profound and inspirational. More than Babbage or any other person of her era, she was able to glimpse a future in which machines would become partners of the human imagination, together weaving tapestries as beautiful as those from Jacquard's loom. Her appreciation for poetical science led her to celebrate a proposed calculating machine that was dismissed by the scientific establishment of her.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5097335 | There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs's accomplishments | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6e81e2a | Just as combining the steam engine with ingenious machinery drove the Industrial Revolution, the combination of the computer and distributed networks led to a digital revolution that allowed anyone to create, disseminate, and access any information anywhere. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| de02e55 | Finally, I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a7ffb81 | I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b87bde3 | At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8a7e456 | Throughout her life, she excelled at being able to translate scientific problems--such as those involving trajectories, fluid flows, explosions, and weather patterns--into mathematical equations and then into ordinary English. This talent helped to make her a good programmer. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fddf98f | An irresistible glimpse into his complex and often | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6b1196f | 1843 Ada, Countess of Lovelace, publishes "Notes" on Babbage's Analytical Engine. 1847 George Boole creates a system using algebra for logical reasoning. 1890 The census is tabulated with Herman" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a67b78e | Some of the most important technologies of our era, such as the fracking techniques developed over the past six decades for extracting natural gas, came about because of countless small innovations as well as a few breakthrough leaps. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 10ec74d | A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ec43e9a | TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7cae71f | The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 107bb38 | 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. That's had a big impact on my work. Western rational thought is not an innate human characteri.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0acaf84 | If the object were to have feelings, these would be based on its desire to fulfill its essence. The purpose of a glass, for example, is to hold water; if it had feelings, it would be happy when full and sad when empty. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4a5616f | 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. That's had a big impact on my work. Western rational thought is not an innate human characteri.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 77f6e93 | Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry," Larry Ellison said." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8e0f560 | I had come to revere the Italian designers, just like the kid in Breaking Away reveres the Italian bikers," recalled Jobs, "so it was an amazing inspiration." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e552138 | Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c728374 | computer. At an executive team brainstorming session one Monday, Ive asked why it needed a keyboard hinged to the screen; that was expensive and bulky. Put the keyboard on the screen using a multi-touch interface, he suggested. Jobs agreed. So the resources were directed to revving up the tablet project rather than designing a netbook. The process began with Jobs and Ive figuring out the right screen size. They had twenty models made--all r.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d1d5b84 | Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cca30c8 | conformed to the principle of least action, a foundation of physics that holds that light or any object moving between two points should follow the easiest path.3 Planck's paper not only contributed to the development of relativity theory; it also helped to legitimize it among other physicists. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 383f664 | creative space, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 36fc1c7 | silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!' " As always, Jobs was compulsive in preparing for the dramatic unveiling. Having" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d0a73b0 | regard for reason and nature, its social consciousness, its progressivism, its tolerance, its cosmopolitanism, and its bland philanthropy." He" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f340416 | In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, "Memento mori": Remember you will die. A reminder of mortality would help the hero keep things in perspective, instill some humility." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 615c8a4 | People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5c6996d | The key to innovation-at Bell Labs and in the digital age in general-was realizing that there was no conflict between nurturing individual geniuses and promoting collaborative teamwork. It was not either-or. Indeed, throughout the digital age, the two approaches went together. Creative geniuses (John Mauchly, William Shockley, Steve Jobs) generated innovative ideas. Practical engineers (Presper Eckert, Walter Brattain, Steve Wozniak) partne.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d4eb002 | As a publishing magnate and then as a postmaster, he was one of the few to view America as a whole. To him, the colonies were not merely disparate entities. They were a new world with common interests and ideals. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bde3c97 | responded with a presidential note describing how Washington defined a "base." Work on the new facility was halted," -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4dd7f8d | As the crisis waned during the fall of 1961, so did the last vestiges of Kissinger's influence at the White House. In October he cleaned out his desk. Bundy sent him a letter of perfunctory thanks, which added that the White House had decided not to make a public announcement of his departure.13 | Walter Isaacson |