a high-school age Steve Jobs. The biographical sources we have today suggest that if you talk to a young Steve Jobs, you would not come away with the idea that he was passionate about building a technology company.
mutated into that of a professional writer in the mid 1970s I discovered Theodore Roosevelt as a biographical subject who attracted me for some mysterious reason and I began to write about him a screenplay which I thought I wrote
His name was Tiberius. Tiberius has four biographical accounts that are written about him. Velleius Paterculus, Cassius Dio, Suetonius, and Tacitus. So, these these are the four guys, okay?
interested in selling the most light bulbs he was interested in making the best light bulb um and so biographically what that meant from Westing House's perspective was you know he was of these three guys he was the only one who wasn't in a sense quite as self-made he was uh came from a
So this paucity of records regarding Afong Moy for some time really disheartened my efforts. Historian Joe Lepore considering her biographical work of Jane Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's sister, in her "Book of Ages" remarked, "In writing this book about Benjamin Franklin's sister,
help because they are so poor with a job. One further development is the increase in biographical discontinuity, status inconsistency, and . So this might be very particular for Germany and not very new to Americans.
And regardless of whether the viewer is a man or a woman, and regardless of what the numbers are that your algorithm has output alongside each picture, and even regardless of the various biographical details attached to each picture, they just click on the hottest picture. So it's what we have come to call the focus problem.
Have you heard this story. And you can see some biographical-- I mean, when you know some n things pop out.
that you'd ask it a question, and it would respond. And learning how all this came to be through the biographical details that you also include about Shannon and Turing and the experiments
And Will was very cheap. A lot of the information in terms of biographical information and documentation around Will is tightly controlled by the Kellogg Foundation to this day
I'm going to just say a little bit about it in a moment. To just finish my own sort of little biographical bit, while I was working as chief historian, I got more and more drawn into intelligence history. And that's now really what I specialize in, various aspects of it.
I've never been to Nova Scotia, but never mind. just wanted to ask is so obviously a number of biographical works about Turing have appeared over the years, and I was just curious if there were any particular things you felt that they had got wrong.
at one time or another but you can go to any of their pages and get all the information you could possibly want about Christopher dot including a very large photo um biographical information roles in Congress demographic profile Financial disclosure forms and this this tells you all the different votes and whether he voted with his party against
video. The greatest guitar solo, period. So, there's always a biographical component to these lists. Number three was Kid Charlemagne, a Steely Dan solo— Larry Carlton. Amazing solo, extremely difficult to figure out.
Yeah, so that is a question of historical reliability. So there are a couple different ways we could go about it. First we have four biographical accounts of Jesus' life, which is very unusual. So we call them the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
it make it worse does it make for a more diverse literary atmosphere or a less diverse literary atmosphere for somebody like me who's trying really hard to read diversely I think it's a really good thing to have these biographical details at our fingertips cool um how about so how does it feel to heavier book being talked about in and studied in school oh I'm shaping my
And so that's when I actually shifted my thesis project to be a biographical project about Gary Gygax.
In comparison, there are few biographical sketches that avoid delving into her penchant for abusive men, and self-destructive drug use.
continuation of the strenuous life that that TR LED um Colonel Roosevelt Paints the legacy of of the president after he left the White House Now Edmund Morris has dedicated his life to the biographical Craft um in addition to writing this Opus on on the on President Roosevelt he's also o written and acclaimed biography of of Ronald Reagan
In doing an interview, I could find out all of Megan Green's biographical history, know the corporate structure of Google or whatever else.
In the program notes, where it says, more biographical information about some of the other people who were involved in the production,
Marjorie, I think, shares the most kind of biographical information.
up a certain way yeah or right exactly I mean people's backgrounds are important right and I I don't actually know cuz none of us was alive back then but but I don't know if we had the same kind of biographical information about Pearl boach as we do now about about an author right um you're interested in author right now you can look up their social
they they are queer or whichever right but I'm not sure that we knew that about a pearl block when when we were growing up you know or when when the book was published so the question for me is whether or not these biographical details actually make it better or does it make it worse does it make for a more diverse literary atmosphere or a less diverse literary atmosphere for somebody like me who's trying really hard to read
I mean, th-, that's the kind of biographical reason, there are also the intellectual reasons to many children of survivors of many genocides who don't end up studying this professionally.
everything down. The ancient world was far less of a literate culture. They were an oral culture. These stories would have been passed in large groups at at at at time frames, especially if we're talking about the biographical material of Jesus is actually written in a closer time frame than the majority of anyone else.
That's a myth, I think, really, biographical you have to bust, or you're really never going to fathom who the guy was.
Now, in this process, what would help, probably, is to read the biographical touches,
But I suddenly thought, what if I create a kind of ghostly echo of the book which follows various people through various time periods by using just a little bit of biographical
Ben Fried: the author of "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives." Let me read you the biographical sketch of Steven that appears at the end of the book.
audience #3: So, this isn't exactly a question about your book, but I was wondering if you could say a little biographical background, what led you to write about the things that
David Thomson is a San Francisco-based film critic and historian and the author of more than twenty books, including the new biographical Dictionary of Film.