Quotes About Technology

Jobs took McCollum's class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device

sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery." Paul Jobs was then working at Spectra-Physics, a company in nearby Santa Clara that made lasers for electronics and medical products. As a machinist, he crafted the prototypes of products that the engineers

The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation.

TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011.

Jobs also decided to eliminate the cursor arrow keys on the Macintosh keyboard. The only way to move the cursor was to use the mouse. It was a way of forcing old-fashioned users to adapt to point-and-click navigation, even if they didn't want to. Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.

It was then I realized that I do give a shit about Apple—I started it and it is a good thing to have in the world.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year," he noted. "There is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least ten years.

He said that he would always harbor affection for Apple. "I'll always remember Apple like any man remembers the first woman he's fallen in love with.

Stallman was a purist. Torvalds wasn't.

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

That's a big thing with an invention," Eckert later said, contrasting their machine with Atanasoff's. "You have to have a whole system that works.

performance" would double every eighteen months because of the increased power as well as the increased numbers of transistors that would be put onto a microchip.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Torvalds and Eric Raymond began to use, open-source software, which emphasized the pragmatic goal of getting people to collaborate in order to create software more effectively.

Like many companies, Sony worried about cannibalization. If it built a music player and service that made it easy for people to share digital songs, that might hurt sales of its record division. One of Jobs's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. "If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an iPhone might cannibalize sales of an iPod, or an iPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.

It's a testament to Isaacson's skill as a biographer that readers can at last obtain the picture of Steve Jobs as a human being rather than a legend . . . anyone who's ever wondered how so very much about the technology landscape has changed so fundamentally in just thirty-five years, owes it to themselves to read this book." —TUAW.com "Walter Isaacson's book is an unflinching biography of a manifestly

Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general-purpose computer were women: "Despite our coming of age in an era when women's career opportunities were generally quite confined, we helped initiate the era of the computer.

Gates was, after all, a serial stealer of computer time, and he had manipulated passwords to hack into accounts from eighth grade through his sophomore year at Harvard. Indeed, when he claimed in his letter that he and Allen had used more than $40,000 worth of computer time to make BASIC, he omitted the fact that he had never actually paid for that time and that much of it was on Harvard's military-supplied computer, funded by American taxpayers.

Fans inside computers were not Zen-like; they distracted.

I wanted to buy it because I was really into computer graphics," Jobs recalled. "I realized they were way ahead of others in combining art and technology, which is what I've always been interested in.

Won't Work." Apple's former chief financial officer

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in a way that Sony, which had all the assets and heritage, never could accomplish.

This entailed switching around by hand ENIAC's rat's nest of cables and resetting its switches. At first the programming seemed to be a routine, perhaps even menial task, which may have been why it was relegated to women, who back then were not encouraged to become engineers. But what the women of ENIAC soon showed, and the men later came to understand, was that the programming of a computer could be just as significant as the design of its hardware.