Quotes from Walter Isaacson

Lee Clow, the creative director at Chiat/ Day who had done the great "1984" ad for the launch of the Macintosh, was driving in Los Angeles in early

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.

said. But his father again bent to his will. "He wanted me to promise that I'd never use pot again, but I wouldn't promise." In fact by his senior year he was also dabbling in LSD and hash as well as exploring the mind-bending effects of sleep deprivation. "I

Una de las claves para que una innovación tenga éxito es simplificar el acceso del usuario. Para que los blogs se convirtiesen en

They were still walking and talking when the stores opened at 10, and they went into Eddie Bauer. It had an entrance off the mall and another off the parking lot. Jobs decided that Apple stores should have only one entrance, which would make it easier to control the experience. And the Eddie Bauer store, they agreed, was too long and narrow. It was important that customers intuitively grasp the layout of a store as soon as they entered. There were no tech stores in the mall

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 the status quo as much.

If you reveal TMI, it can make people feel a little less alone.

artificial intelligence pioneer John McCarthy

One day in the fall of 2010 he was wistfully going through a box of old snapshots with me, and paused over one that showed him visiting Lisa when she was young. "I probably didn't go over there enough," he said. Since he had not spoken to her all that year, I asked if he might want to reach out to her with a call or email. He looked at me blankly for a moment, then went back to riffling through other old photographs.

That's why I'm here to kiss the corporate ass. I don't kiss everybody's.

una vida bien empleada trae una muerte feliz.»

Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!

You know, Gina, Apple is like a ship," Amelio answered. "That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

Berners-Lee was born in 1955, the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

Jobs was often bullied, and in the middle of seventh grade he gave his parents an ultimatum. "I insisted they put me in a different school

I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were lacking in our factory - was as sense of teamwork and discipline. If we didn't have the discipline to keep that place spotless, then we weren't going to have the discipline to keep all those machines running.

Its other significant attribute was that it was just over the line inside what was then the Cupertino-Sunnyvale School District

Instead, Franklin found "a good and faithful helpmate" who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far more valuable to a rising tradesman.

at the Ahwahnee Lodge in Yosemite National Park. Built in the 1920s, the Ahwahnee is a sprawling pile of stone, concrete, and timber designed in a style that mixed Art Deco, the Arts and Crafts movement

Durante la ausencia de Shockley y Brattain, la guerra transformó los Laboratorios Bell, que entraron a formar parte del triángulo integrado por el gobierno, las universidades de investigación y el sector privado.

The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win

That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children's eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a long time, then at Laurene, and finally gazed past them into the distance. "Oh wow," he said. "Oh wow. Oh wow." Those were his final words before he drifted into unconsciousness sometime around two that afternoon.

By 1972 the price of a pocket calculator had dropped to $100, and 5 million units were sold. By 1975 the price was down to $25, and sales were doubling every year. In 2014 a Texas Instruments pocket calculator cost $3.62 at Walmart.

one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Jobs felt that design simplicity should be linked to making products easy to use. Those goals do not always go together. Sometimes a design can be so sleek and simple that a user finds it intimidating or unfriendly to navigate. "The main thing in our design is that we have to