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at would otherwise never get enough resources. Reward for Creativity There's no doubt society values creativity very highly. One of the first tasks Thomas Jefferson undertook when he became President of the United States was to set up a patent system. He remained head of the patent office for over ten years. Thes
tivity very highly. One of the first tasks Thomas Jefferson undertook when he became President of the United
drives creativity. There are also some myths to dispel about creative people. Inventors are portrayed as eccentric and hopelessly disorganized, but Feynman kept notes of every idea he ever had. I have kept a series of notebooks, now computer based, since J left university. I still have almost all of thes
quality What did the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson mean in 1776 when he wrote, “We hold these Truths
n be more impartial, calm, and consistent and less abusive or mischievous than people in such positions. Equality What did the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson mean in 1776 when he wrote, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed 169 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016
ard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had a well-known predilection for playing with dopey ideas. In the event, he showed up on the day the company was incorporated and stayed on, for sum
quality What did the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson mean in 1776 when he wrote, “We hold these Truths
n be more impartial, calm, and consistent and less abusive or mischievous than people in such positions. Equality What did the thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson mean in 1776 when he wrote, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed 169 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016
ard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had a well-known predilection for playing with dopey ideas. In the event, he showed up on the day the company was incorporated and stayed on, for sum
80 ISABEL 14 iTunes 130 J Jabberwocky 135, 136 Jaeggi, Susanne 33 Japanese 87 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016101 412 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? Jape 310 Jefferson, Thomas 308 Jeopardy 9 Jessie 145 Jobs, Steve 47, 68, 296-297, 297, 306 joke 93 world’s funniest 94 Joke Analysis and Production Engine 310 Jones, JP
ivity versus 312 program equivalence problem 250 programmer 235, 238, 263 programming geniuses 271 super-programmers 266 progressive cipher 214 proof Feynman’s proof 157 indirect 244 mathematical 156 philosophical 246 Index 415 PSPACE problem 168 Pulitzer Prize 365, 367 purpose on the planet 9 puzzle tw
to be that history was made in public: Big visible wars and social shifts and revolutions. Pericles in the Athenian square; the churning protests of Jefferson’s Paris or the massing of armies. Now, however, subtle manipulations of technology, invisible to most of us and maybe even accidental, maybe weird, w
was the time that Hillis asked Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman to tip him off about any smart scientists Thinking Machines might hire. Feynman, pushing 60, volunteered himself and spent his summer vacations for the next ten years with Hillis and his team.1?! When it came time to test the fir
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