[b]Walter Isaacson
“If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake,” he said. “Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister.” Freedom was a foundation for creativity.[/b]
Einstein addressing all the pinhead objectivists here.
Actually, me imagining that.
The sexual act of coitus and the body parts employed for it are so repulsive that, if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornment of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
Let’s just say it’s not completely irrational.
There would be times when we’d rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we’d considered every option, and he would go, “Did you think of this? " said Fadell.” And then we’d all go, “Holy Shit.”
That ever happen here?
One mark of a great mind is the willingness to change it. We can see that in Leonardo. As he wrestled with his earth and water studies during the early 1500s, he ran into evidence that caused him to revise his belief in the microcosm-macrocosm analogy. It was Leonardo at his best, and we have the great fortune of being able to watch that evolution as he wrote the Codex Leicester. There he engaged in a dialogue between theories and experience, and when they conflicted he was receptive to trying a new theory. That willingness to surrender preconceptions was key to his creativity.
You know, in the either/or world.
I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.
Me? No fucking way they’re coming out.
Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face-to-face meetings. “There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat,” he said. “That’s crazy.”
On the contrary?
Or is it too close to call?
