John Borthwick
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John Borthwick
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He found Sculley’s newly built mansion ostentatious, with its floor-to-ceiling windows, but he admired the three hundred-pound custom-made oak doors that were so carefully hung and balanced that they swung open with the touch of a finger. “Steve was fascinated by that because he is, as I am, a perfectionist,” Sculley recalled. Thus began the somewh... See more
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
I was filming him this was quote the screen test and he figured out what was going on and he took his hair and he did his hair up he had very long blond hair and he did it up in a kind of saying himself in the back and he's a to polish made it black and then he put on a shirt and he remembers they did that he mid the lapel and he started to do that... See more
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"the truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it"
we are just base for technology.
Maven
what a strange idea
We also now have a persuasive “so what?” These technologies have enabled a whole new user interface for computers: human language. Just like the graphical user interface made the personal computer accessible to millions of customers in the 1980s, so too have the new natural language interfaces made AI accessible to hundreds of millions of users wor... See more
Konstantine Buhler • AI and the Frontier Paradox
From Ezra Klein:
AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that
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Central to intelligence simplicity and the ability to pick certain areas to focus on vertically and connect them horizontally
There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
The concept of efficiency — how much one can accomplish per unit of time (or per dollar, etc.) — requires a quantitative numerator as well as a denominator. It requires a metric. Therefore, it tells us nothing about results we cannot quantify or measure. When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while t... See more
➰ limitations to the efficiency paradigm ...
While you and I have lips and voices
Which are for kissing and to sing with
Who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch
Invents an instrument to measure Spring with?