Quotes About Technology

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

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

If Apple is going to succeed, he told me, we're going to win on innovation. And you can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate to customers.

His plan incorporated the packet-switching concept of Paul Baran and Donald Davies, the suggestion for standardized IMPs proposed by Wes Clark, the theoretical insights of J. C. R. Licklider, Les Earnest, and Leonard Kleinrock, and the contributions of many other inventors.

Innovation requires a reality distortion field.

One was how computers could be networked; the second was how object-oriented programming worked.

Grossman correctly noted that the iPhone did not really invent many new features, it just made these features a lot more usable. "But that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. . . . When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

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.

released that year, and the following year Apple's purchase of NeXT offered him reentry into the company he had founded.

Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer that an illiterate six-year-old can use without instruction," Noer wrote. "If that isn't magical, I don't know what is.

Gates was good at computer coding, unlike Jobs, and his mind was more practical, disciplined, and abundant in analytic processing power. Jobs was more intuitive and romantic and had a greater instinct for making technology usable, design delightful, and interfaces friendly. He had a passion for perfection, which made him fiercely demanding, and he managed by charisma and scattershot intensity.

ocupó el puesto de directora técnica y coordinó la creación de COBOL, el primer lenguaje de programación empresarial, multiplataforma y estandarizado.

modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject … In the end, we can't help but agree with Isaacson's assessment: "Was

summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product

El test de Turing, que él llamaba «juego de imitación», es sencillo: un interrogador remite preguntas por escrito a un humano y a una máquina que se encuentran en otra habitación, y trata de determinar a partir de sus respuestas cuál de los dos es el humano.

Isaacson's vivid and beautifully executed book unveils Jobs's creative process' Murad Ahmed

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.

que el hardware se convertiría en una mercancía más y que sería en la programación donde radicaría el verdadero valor. Hasta la irrupción de Bill Gates, esta idea se les escapaba a la mayoría de los hombres.

NASA was able to send a man to the moon. Engineers in Silicon Valley were able to devise a way to put a programmable computer on a chip called a microprocessor. And ARPA created a network that could connect distant computers.

pep talk just after he became iCEO in September 1997, sitting in the audience was a sensitive and passionate thirty-year-old Brit who was head of the

Bueno, Steve, me parece que hay más de una forma de verlo. Yo diría más bien que es como si ambos tuviésemos un vecino rico llamado Xerox y, cuando yo me colé en su casa para robar el televisor, descubrí que ya te lo habías llevado tú.

It's good to have strong opinions about gene engineering in humans, but it's even better if you know what a gene is.

Regardez ! J'ai dessiné un cercle ! s'exclama Warhol après avoir joué avec MacDraw.

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