The Innovators How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Where I was curious to study everything in sight, Bill would focus on one task at a time with total discipline

Taylor to build its network, the Pentagon was spawning one that it would not be able to fully control

Would communication between two places on the network require a dedicated line between them, as a phone call did?

The creation of a triangular relationship among government, industry, and academia was, in its own way, one of the significant innovations that helped produce the technological revolution of the late twentieth century.

Bush chose an evocative and quintessentially American title, “Science, the Endless Frontier.” His introduction deserves to be reread whenever politicians threaten to defund the research needed for future innovation. “Basic research leads to new knowledge,” Bush wrote. “It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn.”