The practical engineer and the process of collaboration babbage and lovelace had their own form of that from early on. He called her my views. We should not overstate her. She was in some ways not as great a mathematician as she would like to believe but could generate and understand the sequence of bernoulli numbers and make a chart a chart which becomes the First Published program. We should all celebrated. [applauding] yes. I say, okay. Tell me the seventh, eighth, ninth in the sequence of bernoulli numbers and how you would do a chart on a mechanical processor like that one to generate them. Then people understand what a partnership she had and how important she was to babbage trying to create what he thought was a numerical calculator, but she has the insight that it is not just for numbers. Her mom had taken her to the midlands of england to look at the mechanical weaving runs using punch cards. You have them downstairs and this museum. The punch cards of the shop card looms of t
I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you r great devices or great ideas but after a while you realize it is not how much you take out of the river but how much you put into the river, what you leave behind so your spirit is so manifest after you have been gone. Whether it is Robert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin or anybody else they did have a connection to something supernatural, something larger than themselves. Host from 2011 to your book and steve jobs, the opening sentence in your the 2004 got a phone call from steve jobs. Why did he call you . I had written a biography of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and his it why do you do me next . My first reaction was okay, Benjamin Franklin Albert Einstein, you . Then i realized he had been sick fig
She had gone out and bought the afternoon. Its a spectacular book and if you havent read Walter Isaacson its a joy to read him. He can access with the devices that connect our lives. Everyone if he was carrying around some of you that has dozens and dozens of independent technological strength to give us the connectivity that if we just assume today. Walter is the best person i know at explaining the connection that lead to the things that change our lives. In his new book the innovators how a group of hackers, geniuses and geeks created the digital revolution walter strings together not just the hero stories but the stories you wouldnt hear because these things are not made by individuals. Walter does a phenomenal job of explaining how the teamwork involved in the history is exciting and riveting. Now i will just go back to my script for one minute. Im going to quote salon. Com which is a pity when america understands genius is Walter Isaacson. [applause] thank you very much. I wasnt
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