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| 59d644a | Human ingenuity," wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, "will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5f15a23 | based on international law. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 53cfeb7 | I'm about fifty-fifty on believing in God," he said. "For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye." He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overestimating the odds out of a desire to believe in an afterlife. "I like to think that something survives after you die," he said. "It's strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 35b220a | ARPA should not force the research computers at each site to handle the routing of data, Clark argued. Instead ARPA should design and give each site a standardized minicomputer that would do the routing. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cb7fc9b | Causality expresses the pattern which the mind imposes on a sequence of events in order to make their appearance comprehensible. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f6ac32b | His paper, titled "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits," was published in the April 1965 issue of Electronics magazine." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0e1ab6b | The first RFC went out on April 7, 1969, mailed in old-fashioned envelopes through the postal system. (There was no such thing as email, since they hadn't invented the network yet.) | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6e0b305 | Man's knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 67102a5 | When people take insights from multiple sources and put them together, it's natural for them to think that the resulting ideas are their own--as | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ecf8a63 | On October 29 the connection was ready to be made. The event was appropriately casual. It had none of the drama of the "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" that had occurred on the moon a few weeks earlier, with a half billion people watching on television. Instead it was an undergraduate named Charley Kline, under the eye of Crocker and Cerf, who put on a telephone headset to coordinate with a researcher at SRI while typing.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 510c24c | Spacewar highlighted three aspects of the hacker culture that became themes of the digital age. First, it was created collaboratively. "We were able to build it together, working as a team, which is how we liked to do things," Russell said. Second, it was free and open-source software. "People asked for copies of the source code, and of course we gave them out." Of course--that was in a time and place when software yearned to be free. Third.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3495152 | Only through the personal awareness and "inward conviction" that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 23dd938 | There is an inspiring lesson in how Kilby and Noyce personally handled the question of who invented the microchip. They were both decent people; they came from tight-knit small communities in the Midwest and were well grounded. Unlike Shockley, they did not suffer from a toxic mix of ego and insecurity. Whenever the topic of credit for the invention came up, each was generous in praising the contributions of the other. It soon became accept.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bd77e64 | In 1967 Kilby and his team produced almost what Haggerty envisioned. It could do only four tasks (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) and was a bit heavy (more than two pounds) and not very cheap ($150).21 But it was a huge success. A new market had been created for a device people had not known they needed. And following the inevitable trajectory, it kept getting smaller, more powerful, and cheaper. By 1972 the price of a pocket calculato.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ce15572 | finally decided on Integrated Electronics Corp. That wasn't very thrilling, either, but it had the virtue that it could be abridged--as Intel. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2885379 | I designed the Apple I because I wanted to give it away for free to other people," said Wozniak." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 17bf213 | Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 68e4605 | When one early employee wanted to see the company's organization chart, Noyce made an X in the center of a page and then drew a bunch of other Xs around it, with lines leading to each. The employee was at the center, and the others were people he would be dealing with. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3e43f11 | The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge t.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9d4cbf1 | Microsoft's success represented an aesthetic flaw in the way the universe worked. "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste," he later said. "I don't mean that in a small way. I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product."116 The primary reason for Microsoft's success was that it was willing and eager to li.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7a7dbd3 | A break came when Polish intelligence officers created a machine based on a captured German coder that was able to crack some of the Enigma codes. By the time the Poles showed the British their machine, however, it had been rendered ineffective because the Germans had added two more rotors and two more plugboard connections to their Enigma machines. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4334bbd | Public awareness is an important component of innovation. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 513ad74 | Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 094f96b | a prim and proper lady who sat up front who had been, I was later told, President Eisenhower's personal pilot when she was a male, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| edd05ed | Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9347467 | Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world? | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d6bf599 | The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a1db63a | The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 51f08ed | key challenge for managers is how to strike a balance between being decisive and being collegial, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 88bc781 | New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce. | plan understand | Walter Isaacson | |
| 5eb580d | conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5c0c282 | During one maddening session, Kay, whose thoughts often seemed tailored to go directly from his tongue to wikiquotes, shot back a line that was to become PARC's creed: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."60" -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a318943 | During his Oxford years, microprocessors became available. So, just as Wozniak and Jobs had done, he and his friends designed boards that they tried to sell. They were not as successful as the Steves, partly because, as Berners-Lee later said, "we didn't have the same ripe community and cultural mix around us like there was at the Homebrew and in Silicon Valley."7 Innovation emerges in places with the right primordial soup, which was true o.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 81707de | 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. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bffaa1a | A physicist is one who's concerned with the truth," he later said. "An engineer is one who's concerned with getting the job done."65" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c55eb4a | Eichler, whose company spawned more than eleven thousand homes in various California subdivisions between 1950 and 1974. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's vision of simple modern homes for the American "everyman," Eichler built inexpensive houses" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7fc8d3c | C. P. Snow was right about the need to respect both of "the two cultures," science and the humanities. But even more important today is understanding how they intersect. Those who helped lead the technology revolution were people in the tradition of Ada, who could combine science and the humanities. From her father came a poetic streak and from her mother a mathematical one, and it instilled in her a love for what she called "poetical scien.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4205e21 | change the world are the ones who do. --Apple's "Think Different" commercial, 1997" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f3aa749 | Las personas lo suficientemente locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo son las que lo cambian. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 004dd08 | If you need slides, it shows you don't know what you're talking about.' | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a5b0985 | En lugares como IBM, que se especializa en mejoras cotidianas realizadas por equipos de ingenieros, esta es la forma preferida de entender como se produce realmente la innovacion. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9672b39 | Kissinger's main course was "Principles of International Relations," which usually drew more than two hundred undergraduates enticed by his newfound humor and charisma. He started with Napoleon, dwelled on Metternich and Bismarck, and concluded with an analysis of the current trends in arms control." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 87b3481 | Ive grew up in Chingford, a town on the northeast edge of London. His father was a silversmith who taught at the local college. "He's a fantastic craftsman," Ive recalled. "His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6f49754 | One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him" | Walter Isaacson |