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| bcf2422 | At different times in the past, there were companies that exemplified Silicon Valley. It was Hewlett-Packard for a long time. Then, in the semiconductor era, it was Fairchild and Intel. I think that it was Apple for a while, and then that faded. And then today, I think it's Apple and Google--and a little more so Apple. I think Apple has stood the test of time. It's been around for a while, but it's still at the cutting edge of what's going .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6201f3e | Predictions that digital tools would allow workers to telecommute were never fully realized. One of Marissa Mayer's first acts as CEO of Yahoo! was to discourage the practice of working from home, rightly pointing out that "people are more collaborative and innovative when they're together." When Steve Jobs designed a new headquarters for Pixar, he obsessed over ways to structure the atrium, and even where to locate the bathrooms, so that s.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a80a976 | Mi principio inquebrantable es esforzarme en amar la verdad y a Dios por encima de la fama y la gloria --afirmaba--. El suyo es amar la verdad y a Dios, pero amar aun mas la fama, la gloria y los honores.>> | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9c0798b | The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c99fe5b | commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor trouble and never rose above the rank of seaman. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 60fbba1 | I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 71b882a | Queremos que, cuando abras la caja de un iPhone o de un iPad, la experiencia tactil condicione como vas a percibir el dispositivo>>, senalo. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1b630e8 | Being a brash entrepreneur, Roberts responded to the crisis by deciding to launch a whole new business. He had always been fascinated by computers, and he assumed that other hobbyists felt the same. His goal, he enthused to a friend, was building a computer for the masses that would eliminate the Computer Priesthood once and for all. After studying the instruction set for the Intel 8080, Roberts concluded that MITS could make a do-it-yourse.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 134d045 | We had to learn their vocabularies in order to be able to run their problems. I could switch my vocabulary and speak highly technical for the programmers, and then tell the same things to the managers a few hours later but with a totally different vocabulary." Innovation requires articulation." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0a33660 | One of the basic lessons for innovation is to stay focused. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 745ad5d | If you reveal TMI, it can make people feel a little less alone. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0c3d936 | Search the phrase "the man who invented" on Amazon and you get 1,860 book results. 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 | ||
| f6440c8 | In the 1980s I thrilled to the static and screech that modems made when they opened for you the weirdly magical realm of online services and bulletin boards, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 144ffd5 | Eckert, with his passion for detail and perfection, was the chief engineer. Eckert became so dedicated to the project that he would sometimes sleep next to the machine. Once, as a joke, two engineers picked up his cot and gently moved him to an identical room one floor up; when he awoke he briefly feared the machine had been stolen. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5417332 | At that time in IBM you had to wear a white shirt, dark pants and a black tie with your badge stapled to your shoulder or something," said Steve Bristow, an engineer. "At Atari the work people did counted more than how they looked." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a0301c1 | An invention, especially one as complex as the computer, usually comes not from an individual brainstorm but from a collaboratively woven tapestry of creativity. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1c4d438 | a table and diagram showing exactly how the algorithm would be fed into the computer, step by step, including two recursive loops. It was a numbered list of coding instructions that included destination registers, operations, and commentary--something that would be familiar to any C++ coder today. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 42c9446 | CONTENTS Epigraph Characters Introduction: How This Book Came to Be CHAPTER ONE Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen CHAPTER TWO Odd Couple: The Two Steves CHAPTER THREE The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In . . . CHAPTER FOUR Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design CHAPTER FIVE The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In . . . CHAPTER SIX | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 369a6c2 | The combination of GNU and Linux created an operating system that has been ported to more hardware platforms, ranging from the world's ten biggest supercomputers to embedded systems in mobile phones, than any other operating system. "Linux is subversive," wrote Eric Raymond. "Who would have thought that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cbaa0a5 | Gates's "Letter to Hobbyists," complaining about the unauthorized sharing of Microsoft BASIC, asked in a chiding way, "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?" Torvalds found that an odd outlook. He and Gates were from two very different cultures, the communist-tinged radical academia of Helsinki versus the corporate elite of Seattle. Gates may have ended up with the bigger house, but Torvalds reaped antiestablishment adulation... | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 82104be | ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 63c49e2 | Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin. Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his leathery exterior. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| da7ffcc | Woz's father taught him something else that became ingrained in his childlike, socially awkward personality: | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3c18a9a | Those sentences are somewhat clotted, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8184a98 | playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome--one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class--and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1a7c977 | because of the huge number of pages and links involved, Page and Brin named their search engine Google, playing off googol, the term for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros. It was a suggestion made by one of their Stanford officemates, Sean Anderson, and when they typed in Google to see if the domain name was available, it was. So Page snapped it up. "I'm not sure that we realized that we had made a spelling error," Brin later said. ".. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a528345 | Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b0878c2 | War mobilizes science. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1e92b19 | accept. He stared at Weeks unblinking. "Yes, you can do it," he said. "Get your mind around it. You can do it." As Weeks retold this story, he shook his head in astonishment. "We did" | Walter Isaacson | ||
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Cuando Einstein se sentia bloqueado mientras trabajaba en la relatividad general, cogia su violin y tocaba musica de Mozart hasta que volvia a conectar con lo que el denominaba la < |
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| 81a44ec | Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. The artful minimalism of the speech gave it simplicity, purity, and charm. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e885b44 | Gates was the prime example of the innovator's personality. "An innovator is probably a fanatic, somebody who loves what they do, works day and night, may ignore normal things to some degree and therefore be viewed as a bit imbalanced," he said. "Certainly in my teens and 20s, I fit that model." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5582b56 | While the men and various dignitaries celebrated, Jennings and Snyder made their way home alone through a very cold February night. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d7ea1ef | Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 30e2599 | Although thrilled that the era of the personal computer had arrived, he was afraid that he was going to miss the party. Slapping down seventy-five cents, he grabbed the issue and trotted through the slushy snow to the Harvard dorm room of Bill Gates, his high school buddy and fellow computer fanatic from Seattle, who had convinced him to drop out of college and move to Cambridge. "Hey, this thing is happening without us," Allen declared. Ga.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c544221 | a simple, inspiring mission for Wikipedia: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." It was a huge, audacious, and worthy goal. But it badly understated what Wikipedia did. It was about more than people being "given" free access to knowledge; it was also about empowering them, in a way not seen before in history, to be part of the process of .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
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De hecho, se establecio una relacion simbiotica entre la aparicion de la radio de transistores y la irrupcion del rock and roll. La primera grabacion comercial de Elvis Presley, < |
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| 58c77f6 | The people who received RFC 1 felt that they were being included in a fun process rather than being dictated to by a bunch of protocol czars. It was a network they were talking about, so it made sense to try to loop everyone in. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4e74da1 | In his logbook, Kline recorded, in a memorably minimalist notation, "22:30. Talked to SRI Host to Host. CSK." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3215196 | circuit. "I don't remember any time when a light bulb went off and the whole thing was there," conceded Noyce. "It was more like, every day, you would say, 'Well, if I could do this, then maybe I could do that, and that would let me do this,' and eventually you had the concept."9 After this flurry of activity he wrote an entry in his notebook, in January 1959: "It would be desirable to make multiple devices on a single piece of silicon."10" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 465a3d2 | values of commons-based sharing and of private enterprise often conflict, most notably over the extent to which innovations should be patent-protected. The commons crowd had its roots in the hacker ethic that emanated from the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club and the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve Wozniak was an exemplar. He went to Homebrew meetings to show off the computer circuit he built, and he handed out freely the schematics so that other.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 91c0838 | then "man-computer symbiosis," as Licklider called it, will remain triumphant. Artificial intelligence need not be the holy grail of computing. The goal instead could be to find ways to optimize the collaboration between human and machine capabilities--to forge a partnership in which we let the machines do what they do best, and they let us do what we do best. SOME LESSONS FROM THE JOURNEY Like all historical narratives, the story of the in.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 83d7772 | Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 93f8903 | Instead he had a trait that was just as useful in promoting collaborative creativity and managing a team: he was decisive. More important, his decisiveness was based not on emotion or personal favoritism but rather on a rational and precise analysis of options. | Walter Isaacson |