Quotes About Progress

The first half of the twentieth century, beginning with Albert Einstein's 1905 papers on relativity and quantum theory, featured a revolution driven by physics.

American science and engineering was even more sexist than it is today," Jennings said.

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

One of the basic lessons for innovation is to stay focused.

The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation.

He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

the key to innovation is connecting a curiosity about basic science to the practical work of devising tools that can be applied to our lives—moving discoveries from lab bench to bedside.

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War mobilizes science.

rise of computers could mean that "man will become a passive, purposeless, machine-conditioned animal.

Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!

The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win

By 1972 the price of a pocket calculator had dropped to $100, and 5 million units were sold. By 1975 the price was down to $25, and sales were doubling every year. In 2014 a Texas Instruments pocket calculator cost $3.62 at Walmart.

Search the phrase "the man who invented" on Amazon and you get 1,860 book results. But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned.

The way we build stuff at Apple is often this way. Even the number of models we'd make of a new notebook or iPod. We would start off with a version and then begin refining and refining, doing detailed models of the design, or the buttons, or how a function operates. It's a lot of work, but in the end it just gets better, and soon it's like, "Wow, how did they do that?!? Where are the screws?

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

the biggest way to deliver an effect to the world is not by writing a paper but by taking technology you believe in and making something of it.

The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal.

He turned out to be good in geometry, but he never mastered the use of equations or the rudimentary algebra that existed at the time.

Si quieres vivir de forma creativa, como un artista, no debes mirar demasiado hacia atrás. Tienes que estar dispuesto a recoger todo lo que eres y todo lo que has hecho y arrojarlo por la ventana.

Plus, for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

their ability to work as teams made them even more creative. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.

It conjured up memories of what he sounded like when he was young, and how, as in his favorite Dylan song, he had remained forever young. "They push the human race forward