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Book: The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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  1. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    Many people suppose that computing machines are replacements for intelligence and have cut down the need for original thought," Wiener wrote. "This is not the case."14 The more powerful the computer, the greater the premium that will be placed on connecting it with imaginative, creative, high-level human thinking.
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  2. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    The Kleinrock controversy is interesting because it shows that most of the Internet's creators preferred-to use the metaphor of the Internet itself-a system of fully distributed credit. They instinctively isolated and routed around any node that tried to claim more significance than the others. The Internet was born of an ethos of creative collaboration and distributed decision making, and its founders liked to protect that heritage. It became ingrained in their personalities-and in the DNA of the Internet itself.
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  3. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    Many people who celebrate the arts and the humanities, who applaud vigorously the tributes to their importance in our schools, will proclaim without shame {and sometimes even joke} that they don't understand math or physics. They extoll the virtues of learning Latin, but they are clueless about how to write an algorithm or tell BASIC from C++, Python from Pascal. They consider people who don't know Hamlet from Macbeth to be Philistines, yet they might merrily admit that they don't know the difference between a gene and a chromosome, or a transistor and a capacitor, or an integral and a differential equation. These concepts may seem difficult. Yes, but so, too, is Hamlet. And like Hamlet, each of these concepts is beautiful. Like an elegant mathematical equation, they are expressions of the glories of the universe.
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  4. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    In a colorful part of the paper, he presented a fictional scenario in which he posed questions to the machine. He imagined the machine's activity: "Over the week-end it retrieved over 10,000 documents, scanned them all for sections rich in relevant material, analyzed all the rich sections into statements in a high-order predicate calculus, and entered the statements into the data base.
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  5. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    You've got to make a new set of friends and interact with a new set of prejudices every time.
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  6. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.
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  7. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    Computers today are brilliant idiots,
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  8. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    creativity came through chance encounters.
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    number of sources.
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  10. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    great innovations are usually the result of ideas that flow from a large
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  11. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    easy. It took scientists forty years to map the neurological activity of the one-millimeter-long roundworm, which has 302 neurons and 8,000 synapses.I The human brain has 86 billion neurons and up to 150 trillion synapses.15
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  12. Walter Isaacson _ The Innovators: How a Group of

    focused, yet he dazzled and baffled colleagues by suddenly changing his mind when he realized he needed to think different.
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