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His paper, titled "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits," was published in the April 1965 issue of Electronics magazine.

Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages

NeXT computer. But gradually he was learning his lesson. In building devices like the iPod

similar attention on the title bars atop windows and documents. He had Atkinson and Kare do them over and over again as he agonized over their look. He did not like the ones on the Lisa because they were too black and harsh. He

His product comes with an interesting feature called incompatibility," Gates told the Washington Post. "It doesn't run any of the existing software. It's a super-nice computer. I don't think if I went out to design an incompatible computer I would have done as well as he did.

Doug Engelbart demonstrate his oNLine System, made famous at the Mother of All Demos

from Morgan Stanley, which was a pretty uptight firm in those days," recalled

Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry," Larry Ellison said. "There are cars people are proud to have—Porsche, Ferrari, Prius—because what I drive says something about me. People feel the same way about an Apple product.

He was able (this being the Depression) to buy used desk calculators cheaply from ailing banks and to hire a group of young people, through the New Deal's National Youth Administration, to do computations at fifty cents an hour.

Markkula and some others could never quite appreciate Jobs's obsession with typography.

considerable achievement, a thorough and insightful look into the life of Apple's visionary' The Times

He would go on fasts, just as he did as a teenager, and he became sanctimonious as he lectured others at the table on the virtues of whatever eating regimen he was following

Von Neumann was another innovator who stood at the intersection of the humanities and sciences.

Sutil es el Señor, pero malicioso no lo es.

He also speculated, correctly, that summer breezes do not by themselves cool people; instead, the cooling effect comes from the increased evaporation of human perspiration caused by the breeze.

insight, the user is never wrong, led to this idea that we could produce a search engine that was better.

James was the first great fighter for an independent press in America, and he was the most important journalistic influence on his younger brother. He

some forms of RNA could likewise be enzymes. Specifically, they found that some RNA molecules can split themselves by sparking a chemical reaction. They dubbed these catalytic RNAs "ribozymes

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According to a tale recorded by James McHenry of Maryland, he made his point in a pithier way to an anxious lady named Mrs. Powel, who accosted him outside the hall. What type of government, she asked, have you delegates given us? To which he replied, "A republic, madam, if you can keep it.

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.

Talmud brought him science books, including a popular illustrated series called People's Books on Natural Science

Talmud brought him science books, including a popular illustrated series called People's Books on Natural Science, "a work which I read with breathless attention," said Einstein.

in the present situation we must support a supranational organization of force rather than advocate the abolition of all forces