Hints and tips:
...The balance has shifted too far towards the private; while US business investment in R&D more than tripled between 1990 and 2020, federal public R&D spending was almost flat....
...I thought maybe I’d have to drop out of my Ph.D. program. So I was a second year Ph.D. student working on a study of medical errors in two nearby hospitals....
...At the end of the day, Musk is, she concludes, “the saddest, loneliest man she’d ever met”....
...If nothing else, you’d expect their sheer size to slow them down....
...Now, normally you’d expect a central bank raises rates, currency climbs. In this case, it has not done that....
...More than six months had passed since he’d bought Twitter, later renamed X, for $44bn....
...I thought I’d do something completely different, and Rioja seemed the obvious alternative.”...
...The power of the design lab Jobs was a frequent visitor to Apple’s design lab, according to his biographer Walter Isaacson, and ate lunch with Sir Jonathan most days....
...He came across a line from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, where an ex-partner claims the Apple founder was so Bauhaus-obsessed that she could not be with him....
...The laboratory where it is developed is named Normandy in homage to the D-Day landings of the second world war....
...But when pioneering “alienist” — what we’d call a psychologist — Dr Laszlo Kreizler gets wind of the affair, he quickly intuits a link with another murdered boy, mutilated in similar fashion....
...Largo do Chiado 17, 1200-176 Lisbon (leitao-irmao.com) If I had to limit my shopping to one neighbourhood in one city, I’d choose Aoyama in Tokyo....
...“IBM is struggling, even though it looked like they’d reinvented themselves,” says Tim O’Reilly, a US tech publisher and commentator....
...It is four years since Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, told his biographer Walter Isaacson that he had “finally cracked it” with an easy-to-use, cloud-connected television set....
...recently about whether a robot is going to take your job or online monitoring will lead to a surveillance state, then this tour d’horizon of the computer age is for you....
...I’m acquainted with a tycoon who admitted to having any children at all only after I’d known him a couple of years. He talked of his adult offspring with contempt....
...Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is published in paperback this month (Little, Brown)...
...According to a childhood friend quoted in Walter Isaacson’s biography, Jobs became “really serious, self-important and just generally unbearable”....
...the architects of the United States’ postwar golden age – men like George C Marshall, Dean Acheson and George Kennan, in books such as The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas....
...Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, told his biographer Walter Isaacson that he felt technology could do more to improve education, and he met with News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch, who shares that ambition....
...“I’d see someone come in and spend three hours going through [fiction titles]. Eventually he’d pick one, pay for it and walk out....
...And we’d hear surf rumbling in the distance. The eastern coast was known for rumbling surf.”...
...“I thought I’d bounce back. I’d been through deals before,” she says. “But I didn’t. My mental resilience had become so depleted.”...
...Isaacson introduces us to Jobs’s personal sacrifices, successes and failures – as well as the perennial challenge of juggling work-life balance....
...DEPARTMENT OF STATE Remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Internet Freedom, January 21, 2010 The Newseum, Washington, D.C....
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