Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course. Among prominent summer deaths, one recalls those of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, whose lives seemed equally brief and complete. Writers cannot bear the fact that poet John Keats died at 26, and only half playfully judge their own lives as failures when they pass that year. The idea that the life cut short is unfulfilled is illogical because lives are measured by the impressions they leave on the world and by their intensity and virtue. What one learns of the man suggests that John F. Kennedy Jr. led a very good life indeed, and if one calls...
From that single idea--a machine for the backpack, not the briefcase--a thousand developmental insights were launched. In this second Jobs era, says Ive, Apple products are designed "holistically," each aspect of development altering every other as the project evolves, the design group producing first sketches, then computer work-ups and finally physical prototypes in a perpetual rondelet with the software guys, Rubinstein's hardware jocks and Jobs, who was a continual presence during the iBook's 18-month gestation...
...idea is to draw throughout the year attention to the idea of light as an artistic medium and light as something the city owns, a city of light or city of enlightenment or understanding," said Matthew Belge, a lighting artist who helped develop the idea...
...about five years ago, Pappas says, that he started flirting with the idea of turning his daily diet into a restaurant menu...
...would spend his days planted in front of a sophisticated trading screen, trying to squeeze profits out of tiny changes in stock prices and bid-ask spreads and never holding on to anything past the closing bell. It seemed like a terrific idea and a way to get rich. MORE...