"on his death in 1974 the New York Times honored bush with a front page obituary calling him the engineer who marshaled American Technology for World War II and ushered in the atomic age Jerome Weisner..."

"excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today which is endless Frontier vanever Bush engineer of the American Century and it was written by G Pascal Zachary okay so this is the secon..."

"both had a profound belief in the individual capacity for greatness so the note I left myself on this page was this is more on Bush's philosophy a lot of this sounds like Edwin land and so it says he ..."

"prepared questions questions to which the answers are known and so Lan's point is if they are able to survive this educational indoctrination they may be good but they'll never be great and so you see..."

"World War II he advised President Roosevelt on science and technology and organized his successful effort to build the first atomic bomb popularly known as the Manhattan Project in 1945 he published t..."

"Founders and you know I probably read I don't know 30 40 50 of them bush is in every single one his writings and his ideas were influential to generations of technology company Founders and then this ..."

"he's having these views these views are completely oppos he's having these views in 1950 it's completely opposite to the world that he's living in and it's why the author at the very beginning called ..."

"very simple he told a few generals during the war if I have any this is actually a good idea if I have any doubt as to whether I'm supposed to do a job or not I do it and if someone socks me I lay off..."

"New England this part actually reminded me all the way back on Founders Number 103 I read the biography of Hedy green who was the richest woman in America at the time and she came from a family of Wha..."

"across like that's the same conclusion that I've come to he learned that successful captains were autocratic and so let's define that word a ruler who has absolute power you and I I've talked about th..."

"important his father was in fact I think this exact line is in his autobiography that's probably where the author is quoting from he's talking about his father the the teacher when I think of teachers..."

"page was stubborn independent and in a hurry Bush next tried to gain admission to MIT as a doctoral student in electrical engineering but when the professor handling his admission refused to give him ..."

"important is because this is out of amrad comes the invention of these radio tubes that's the foundation for this gigantic company that's going to make Bush wealthy called rathon and this is an exampl..."

"Zeal for gadgetry very similar to what Steve Jobs thought he's like hey why are we building computers for hobbyists for every one hobbyist there's a thousand people that just want to buy a computer fr..."

"analogist to the camera there are thousands of people across the country taking photography courses they'll never be professional photographers they just want to understand what the photographic proce..."

"computer so who the hell said it then I go to readwise where I have 20,000 highlights from all these books and all my notes and this crazy database on the history of Entrepreneurship that I'm not sure..."

"likes to fight that he won't back down and he knows that it's important because you're going to have throughout your entire life you're going to have people that try to bully or or try to enforce thei..."

"had never drifted apart either in the last years of his life this gives me goosebumps because I think about like even if you have imperfect relationships with your family like you can fix that you can..."

"remained susceptible to bounce bouts of nervous tension throughout his prime years these eruptions of anxiety were hard to predict but undeniable all the same I can't think of one person I read a biog..."

"occupy throughout the book from the very first page almost to the very end is this theme that rears over over again the fact that the world that we live in is going to be dominated by science and tech..."

"increasing effect of technology on the world that we live in Bush disagreed that America had overdose on technology that's hilarious because this is happening in the this is before the 1940s Bush disa..."

"romance in adversity and solace in hard work sheer activity was it was his antidote for doubt and the Avenue leading to existential satisfaction and then he goes back to this point that universities a..."

"using Freedom wisely was the whole point of life and so must be the entire thrust of education and I would compare what he's saying there with what Edwin L said that former schooling destroys the capa..."

"is the type of engineer who does not realize that in order to apply the fruits of science for the benefit of mankind he must not only grasp the principles of science but also know the needs and aspira..."

"trying to think strength straight in the midst of complexity as he often did needed more than a device that just crunched numbers they needed help in disciplining their random ideas more important the..."

"for is this idea of being the lion between government and Industry and researchers so I'm going to read this whole part because I just think it's fantastic and it gives you an overview of why he was s..."

"before it actually occurred and he was dead right and this is why I feel quite quite strongly he said that it that if this organization of corporate research directors gets into healthy operative cond..."

"it applies to war education company building this is happening this chapter is on 1939 to 1940 so I think this is when he said it it is being realized with a thud that the world is probably going to b..."

"Lindberg so forcefully presented this is I know repeated this over and over again but this is a main trait of of bush that we have to get in he likes to fight not one to retreat from a fight Bush felt..."

"reliable workhorses but a but a team of high-spirited and sensitive thorough breads even if that meant he must spend time handholding his primadana that just made me think of something let me grab it ..."

"without exception they are disagreeable do not destroy them they lay go golden eggs so let me repeat that in even smaller tolerate genius there are very few Men of Genius but we need all that we can f..."

"that's what you were looking for you wanted okay- FDR on the uh like on the paperb to you okay D- FDR on the single sheet of paper Bush was elated he had his endorsement and it had come in less than 1..."

"the book and it's like a collection of just ideas put on your nightstand put it somewhere out on your desk whatever pick it up read it for 2 or 3 minutes 5 minutes a day whatever it is it's going to p..."

"hilarious this is Bush's advice on how to have meetings he punctuated his meetings with precise declarations which lent an aura of certainty to his off-the-cuff decisions he would outline the situatio..."

"fruits of their labors onto the field of battle and then this is just an amazing description because with with FDR General Groves Oppenheimer and Bush they're really operating in a hidden world that v..."

"this is how Bush saw his role in this project Bush saw his role as the relayer of reliable opinions from scientists in the trenches to Roosevelt and his AIDS he did not mind serving as a messenger pro..."

"taken seriously Enough by Robert omim Oppenheimer that he discussed the possibility of of kidna kidnapping Heisenberg with bush and Groves Bush doubted the value of the Heisenberg scheme but this is t..."