Steve Jobs A Book by Walter Isaacson en.wikipedia.org You'll know it's thereThe Apple Marketing PhilosophyNot just in the detailsAn icon is a symbol equally incomprehensible in all human languagesIf it could save a person's life, would you find a way to make it faster?+31 More Traditional companies are losing because they mismanage software engineersEulogy for Steve Jobs“Design” is now “Product”
Ideas for linear cities Arturo Soria y Mata, who proposed a linear streetcar suburb for Madrid in 1882 and managed to build something like three miles’ worth of an intended thirty. Likewise, the project by Edgar Chambless for Roadtown, published in 1910, depicted an infinitely long, two-room-wide building atop three levels of underground rail lines for express, local, and freight traffic. In the late 1920s, N. A. Miliutin proposed a Soviet Union–spanning linear plan that—following Soria y Mata’s rhetoric—would have solved the old Marxian chestnut of city/country contradiction at a stroke. Le Corbusier’s Algiers scheme of 1933—a highway-topped fourteen-story building meant to stretch miles along the Mediterranean and house 180,000 people—was surely the most immediate precursor of Rudolph’s “City Corridor.” Michael Sorkin, 20 Minutes in Manhattan The linear city