It was a story filled with the most unhappy, mean characters that I've ever seen.

he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.

Isaacson's biography can be read in several ways. It is on the one hand a history of the most exciting time in the age of computers, when the machines first became personal and later, fashionable...

In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. Other...

Franklin's own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence

The general laws of nature are to be expressed by equations that hold true for all systems of coordinates, that is they are covariant with respect to any substitutions whatever.85 Einstein

engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO

one is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.

When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair

Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.

We scientists in particular must foster internationalism, he said. Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this regard.41

his kitchen: Coming back after seven months in Indian villages

His head-snapping insight was that gravity could be defined as the curvature of spacetime, and thus it could be represented by a metric tensor.

There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and science at the beginning of the Renaissance, and again at the beginning...

Woz became more of a loner when the boys his age began going out with girls and partying, endeavors that he found far more complex than designing circuits. Where before I was popular and riding bikes...

This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to be one hitch, a flaw that needed to be fixed or fudged. His theory...

His new idea was published that month in what became yet another seminal Einstein paper, "Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity."9 On the surface, it did indeed seem to be...

Calling himself an old-time believer in democracy, he again made clear that his socialist sentiments did not make him sympathetic to Soviet-style controls. All true democrats must stand guard lest the...