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A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
People who met him then described him as socially awkward, overly earnest, and cerebral.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
People who met him then described him as socially awkward, overly earnest, and cerebral.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
The arc of his life helped to create a very particular California sensibility, a state of mind that has gone on to spread throughout the entire world.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
we have to search for a more objectively true account.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
“You had a set of folks running these machines who were the priesthood of hardware, and the rest of us were railing against it,” says Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. “We wanted a playground where we could go to freely try things out.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.