Sometimes it’s nice to be in the hands of a control freak.
Gates’s “Letter to Hobbyists,” complaining about the unauthorized sharing of Microsoft BASIC, asked in a chiding way, “Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?” Torvalds found that an odd outlook. He and Gates were from two very different cultures, the communist-tinged radical academia of Helsinki versus the corporate elite of Seattle. Gates may have ended up with the bigger house, but Torvalds reaped antiestablishment adulation.
James was the first great fighter for an independent press in America, and he was the most important journalistic influence on his younger brother. He.
There was harmony in proportions, Leonardo learned, and math was nature’s brushstroke.
Jobs knew that he was not ready to run the company himself, even though there was a part of him that wanted to try. Despite his arrogance, he could be self-aware. Markkula agreed; he told Jobs that he was still a bit too rough-edged and immature to be Apple’s president. So they launched a search for someone from the outside.
Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.
Eichler, whose company spawned more than eleven thousand homes in various California subdivisions between 1950 and 1974. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of simple modern homes for the American “everyman,” Eichler built inexpensive houses.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.
Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born In the Homestead High yearbook, 1972.
It was a story filled with the most unhappy, mean characters that I’ve ever seen.
By the time Apple went public a year later, Xerox’s $1 million worth of shares were worth $17.6 million. But Apple got the better end of the bargain. Jobs and his colleagues went to see Xerox PARC’s technology in December 1979 and, when Jobs realized he hadn’t been shown enough, got an even fuller demonstration a few days later. Larry Tesler was one of the Xerox scientists called.
I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer.
Computer innovators, like other pioneers, can find themselves left behind if they get stuck in their ways.
Hertzfeld explained that he needed to get his Apple II DOS program in good enough shape to hand it over to someone. “You’re just wasting your time with that!” Jobs replied. “Who cares about the Apple II? The Apple II will be dead in a few years. The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you’re going to start on it now!” With that, Jobs yanked out the power cord to Hertzfeld’s Apple II, causing the code he was working on to vanish.
Each period is dominated by a mood, with the result that most men fail to see the tyrant who rules over them.
Henry V – the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but.
Like many aspects of the digital age, this idea that innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humanities and sciences interact.
He also had a trait, so common among innovators, that was charmingly described by his biographer Andrew Hodges: “Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.
The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.
Steve Jobs was famously stubborn and.