Quotes About Innovation

Licklider helped chart that course back in 1960 in his paper "Man-Computer Symbiosis," which proclaimed: "Human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

The Bush-Licklider approach was given a friendly interface by Engelbart, who in 1968 demonstrated a networked computer system with an intuitive graphical display and a mouse.

You can invent your way to a better place.

It's time to go back to the moon, this time to stay.

more than a minute. The wilderness decade was over. Finally Jobs waved for silence and cut to the heart of the challenge. "We've got to get the spark back," he said. "The Mac didn't progress much in ten years. So Windows caught up. So we have to come up with an OS that's even better.

These revolutions arose from the discovery, beginning just over a century ago, of the three fundamental kernels of our existence: the atom, the bit, and the gene.

Future generations will figure out the details.

The gene-editing tool that Doudna and others developed in 2012 is based on a virus-fighting trick used by bacteria, which have been battling viruses for more than a billion years. In their DNA, bacteria develop clustered repeated sequences, known as CRISPRs, that can remember and then destroy viruses that attack them.

We now have the power to control our genetic future, which is awesome and terrifying.

In fact, it was specifically for discovering the law of the photoelectric effect that Einstein would win his only Nobel Prize.

Steve Jobs built on the work of Alan Kay, who built on Doug Engelbart, who built on J. C. R. Licklider and Vannevar Bush.

the microchip, the computer, and the internet. When these three innovations were combined, the digital revolution was born.

Silicon Valley The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.

al lograr que Apple se centrara en fabricar únicamente cuatro modelos de ordenadores, Jobs salvó la empresa. «Decidir lo que no hay que hacer es tan importante como decidir lo que hay que hacer

In the mid-1800s, Newtonian mechanics was joined by another great advance. The English experimenter Michael Faraday (1791–1867), the self-taught son of a blacksmith, discovered the properties of electrical and magnetic fields. He showed that an electric current produced magnetism, and then he showed that a changing magnetic field could produce an electric current. When a magnet is moved near a wire loop, or vice versa, an electric current is produced.

Berners-Lee built the Web on top of the Internet.

El buen arte se aparta de la moda, no la sigue

In 1938, the Army Air Corps had 1,773 planes and trained 500 pilots. In 1942, it built 47,000 new planes and trained 30,000 pilots. By the following year, planes were being churned out at a rate of 8,000 a month.

Durante los primeros años después de Pearl Harbor, los Laboratorios Bell se hicieron cargo de casi mil proyectos distintos para el ejército, desde equipos de radio para tanques hasta sistemas de comunicaciones para pilotos que llevaban máscaras de oxígeno, pasando por máquinas de cifrado para codificar mensajes secretos.

A decade after that, in 1915, he wrested from nature his crowning glory, one of the most beautiful theories in all of science, the general theory of relativity.

He named these "CRISPR-associated," or Cas, enzymes.

society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. Therein

It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough—that it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.

He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants.