Quotes About Revolution

I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own," DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting where his operations committee was debating whether to create a smaller version of its PDP-8 for personal consumers.

But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned.

Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.

Power to the people was a romantic lie," he later said. "Computers did more than politics did to change society.

The Internet and the personal computer were both born in the 1970s, but they grew up apart from one another.

You ought to kill Newton," he told Amelio one day by phone.

The invention of CRISPR and the plague of COVID will hasten our transition to the third great revolution of modern times. 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.

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 first half of the twentieth century, beginning with Albert Einstein's 1905 papers on relativity and quantum theory, featured a revolution driven by physics.

you are interested in the history of the digital age and the emergence of digital culture, Isaacson's book is a must read." —

launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee

The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

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

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal.

Timothy Leary declared that personal computers had become the new LSD and years later revised his famous mantra to proclaim, "Turn on, boot up, jack in.

trajectory that could be expected to continue. This was reaffirmed in 1971, when Intel was able to etch a complete central processing unit onto one chip, the Intel 4004, which was dubbed

Even thirty years later, reflecting back on the competition, Jobs cast it as a holy crusade: "IBM was essentially Microsoft at its worst. They were not a force for innovation; they were a force for evil. They were like ATT or Microsoft or Google is." Unfortunately

The creation of a triangular relationship among government, industry, and academia was, in its own way, one of the significant innovations that helped produce the technological revolution of the late twentieth century.

Dan Bricklin, who conceived the first financial spreadsheet program, VisiCalc.

the true birth of the digital age, the era in which electronic devices became embedded in every aspect of our lives, occurred in Murray Hill, New Jersey, shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday, December 16, 1947.

Thus was born the iPod, the device that would begin the transformation of Apple from being a computer maker into being the world's most valuable company.

His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.