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... See more
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
So, how to wrap my arms around this term in a way that captures its spirit without flattening it?
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
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
Central to intelligence simplicity and the ability to pick certain areas to focus on vertically and connect them horizontally
“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.” Oliver Cromwell
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"
Thinking about how AI cleaves open the possibility space around any problem, finding patterns we dont see. And how human intelligence is different to machine intelligence ... examples of cleaving open the possibility space move 37 AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol