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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution QUOTES

1 " Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

2 " progress comes not only in great leaps but also from hundreds of small steps. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

3 " A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way,” Einstein once said, “but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

4 " One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other ‘My little computer said such a funny thing this morning!’ ” he japed in 1951. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

5 " The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

6 " Una de las premisas básicas de la innovación es mantenerse centrado. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

7 " ninguna máquina ha superado el test de Turing, una prueba bastante sencilla y, posiblemente, no demasiado significativa. Y, desde luego, ninguna ha superado el listón de Ada —aún más alto— de ser capaz de «originar» cualquier pensamiento propio. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

8 " The maker culture in America, ever since the days of community barn raisers and quilting bees, often involved do-it-ourselves rather than do-it-yourself. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

9 " Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people.”4 "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

10 " Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

11 " Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

12 " Advances in science when put to practical use mean more jobs, higher wages, shorter hours, more abundant crops, more leisure for recreation, for study, for learning how to live without the deadening drudgery which has been the burden of the common man for past ages.”9 "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

13 " Torvalds decided to use the GNU General Public License, not because he fully embraced the free-sharing ideology of Stallman (or for that matter his own parents) but because he thought that letting hackers around the world get their hands on the source code would lead to an open collaborative effort that would make it a truly awesome piece of software. “My reasons for putting Linux out there were pretty selfish,” he said. “I didn’t want the headache of trying to deal with parts of the operating system that I saw as the crap work. I wanted help.”136 "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

14 " The first rule for such a situation is to make decisions like an engineer, based on technical merit rather than personal considerations. “It was a way of getting people to trust me,” Torvalds explained. “When people trust you, they take your advice.” He also realized that leaders in a voluntary collaborative have to encourage others to follow their passion, not boss them around. “The best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to.” Such a leader knows how to empower groups to self-organize. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

15 " see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

16 " I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

17 " But Jobs was the first to become obsessed with the idea of incorporating PARC’s interface ideas into a simple, inexpensive, personal computer. Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully. On "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

18 " 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. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

19 " This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of ‘free speech,’ not ‘free beer.’ ” For "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

20 " Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it’s better.”12 "

― Walter Isaacson , The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution