Sublime

Most of the information is sitting there idly waiting for the appropriate cues to invoke it.

In finding his way, Grove had followed the trail of a legendary, Vienna-born gadfly, the first great “modern” business management thinker: Peter Drucker.

Then in grand Steve style he’d whip out something fun and exciting to surprise the board—a new prototype or a never-before-seen demo.

This incongruous assortment of engineers, reminiscent of the diverse characters of a Passion play, had one thing that bound them together: a deep, almost spiritual conviction that a good idea and some hard work can make a difference. They believed in the power of a concept to change people’s lives for the better, and felt a moral imperative to make

Every moment in your waking life, each region of your neocortex is comparing a set of expected columns driven from above with the set of observed columns driven from below. Where the two sets intersect is what we perceive.

Unlike humans, whose brains must accompany their bodies, the memory system of an intelligent machine might be located remotely from its sensors (and “body,” if it had one).

What I’ve always found is this: give me a great product picker and a great architect, and I’ll give you a great product. But if I don’t have a great product manager, a great product originator—it used to be called a product picker—and I don’t have a great architect, I’m not going to get a great product.

The basics of forming sequences is to group patterns together that are part of the same object.

The cortex evolved in two directions. First it got larger and more sophisticated in the types of memories it could store; it was able to remember more