Quotes About Inspiration

Tenho simpatia pela força de capacitação da ingenuidade››, diz Atkinson. ‹‹Uma vez que eu não sabia que não podia ser feito, fiquei capacitado para o fazer.

The knack is to get people to follow you, even to places they may not think they can go, by motivating them to share your sense of mission.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything

Recréese en la fantasía.

The more open and unstructured a workplace, he believed, the faster new ideas would be sparked

there many afternoons to seek him out. He was entranced

las ideas nuevas afloran cuando una multitud de conceptos casuales encajan entre sí hasta fusionarse.

Shakespeare's Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention.

that the sodas in the office refrigerator be replaced by Odwalla organic orange and carrot juices, someone on the team had T-shirts made. "Reality Distortion

I designed the Apple I because I wanted to give it away for free to other people," said Wozniak.

Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is "Let me tell you a story." Nobody is eager for a lecture, but everybody loves a story.

wanted to build a frequency counter when he was twelve, and he was able to look up Bill

The idea of a personal computer, one that ordinary individuals could get their hands on and take home, was envisioned in 1945 by Vannevar Bush.

But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

special trip to Japan with

Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention." For Steve Jobs, the ascent to the brightest heaven

Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born In the Homestead High yearbook, 1972

inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology

He also had a trait, so common among innovators, that was charmingly described by his biographer Andrew Hodges: "Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

create a new standard takes not just making something that's a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and captures people's imagination.

That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.

rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era.

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute