Quotes About History

That started an exchange about the early history

The iMac went on sale in August 1998 for $1,299. It sold 278,000 units in its first six weeks, and would sell 800,000 by the end of the year, making it the fastest-selling computer in Apple history.

the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-

the inventors of the transistor at Bell Labs in New Jersey, moved out to Mountain View and, in 1956, started a company to build transistors using silicon rather than the more expensive germanium that was then commonly used. But

Likewise, what emphasis should be put on great individuals versus on cultural currents has long been a matter of dispute;

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.

When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence.

Like most artist-craftsmen of his era, he did not sign his work.

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

serves as a history of digital technology. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson's ability to shape the story as a kind of archetypal fantasy: the flawed hero, the noble quest, the holy grail, the

Throughout human history, we have been subjected to wave after wave of viral and bacterial plagues. The first known one was the Babylon flu epidemic around 1200 BC. The plague of Athens in 429 BC killed close to 100,000 people, the Antonine plague in the second century killed ten million, the plague of Justinian in the sixth century killed fifty million, and the Black Death of the fourteenth century took almost 200 million lives, close to half of Europe's population.

It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.

Thomas Carlyle afirmaba que «la historia del mundo no es sino la biografía de grandes hombres»

It was the first time in history," Wozniak later said, "anyone had typed a character on a keyboard and seen it show up on their own computer's screen right in front of them.

A break came when Polish intelligence officers created a machine based on a captured German coder that was able to crack some of the Enigma codes. By the time the Poles showed the British their machine, however, it had been rendered ineffective because the Germans had added two more rotors and two more plugboard connections to their Enigma machines.

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.

landed after fleeing the Turks in Armenia, and they moved to the Mission District of San Francisco when she was a child. She had a secret that she rarely mentioned to anyone: She had been married before, but her husband had been killed in the war. So when she met Paul Jobs

published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction

a prim and proper lady who sat up front who had been, I was later told, President Eisenhower's personal pilot when she was a male

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

The Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born

The ladies staged tableaux vivants, in which they dressed in costume to re-create famous paintings.

Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him after he saw posters on campus that were beautifully drawn. "I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.