Quotes About Progress

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

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.

When they saw what Jobs and Johnson had built, they unanimously approved going ahead. It would, the board agreed, take the relationship between retailing and brand image to a new level.

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.

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.

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

La innovación se produce por fases. En el caso del transistor, primero fue la invención, liderada por Shockley, Bardeen y Brattain; después la producción, encabezada por ingenieros como Teal, y por último, e igualmente importante, fueron los emprendedores quienes encontraron la forma de crear nuevos mercados. Pat Haggerty, el intrépido jefe de Teal, constituía un llamativo caso práctico de este tercer paso en el proceso de la innovación.

Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief object of science.

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.

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most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively.

But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned.

the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers.

The classic account of the Americans who rebuilt the world after the destruction of World War II.

Power to the people was a romantic lie," he later said. "Computers did more than politics did to change society.

The Internet and the personal computer were both born in the 1970s, but they grew up apart from one another.

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La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo.

In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atanasoff shows, conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution. Jobs and his team took Xerox's ideas, improved them, implemented them, and marketed them.

En lugares como IBM, que se especializa en mejoras cotidianas realizadas por equipos de ingenieros, esta es la forma preferida de entender cómo se produce realmente la innovación.

The most important technology for the region's growth was, of course, the semiconductor. William Shockley, who had been one

Thus did Ada, Countess of Lovelace, help sow the seeds for a digital age that would blossom a hundred years later.

You ought to kill Newton," he told Amelio one day by phone.

Online services such as AOL developed independently of the Internet.