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One of the advantages we had at Pixar, from the beginning, was that technology, art, and business were integrated into the leadership, with each of the company’s leaders—me, John, and Steve—paying a fair amount of attention to the areas where we weren’t considered expert. We have worked assiduously, ever since, to maintain a balance among all three legs of this stool. Our business model, our way of making films, and our technology continually changed, but by integrating them we let them drive each other. The impetus for innovation, in other words, came from the inside rather than the outside.
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
We can’t resist quoting some numbers, because the effect can be startling. Space travel is most comfortable for those onboard the spaceship if the rockets are firing in order to sustain an acceleration equal to “one g.” That means that the space travelers feel their own weight inside the rocket. So let’s imagine a journey of 10 years at that acceleration, followed by 10 more years decelerating at the same rate, at which point we turn the spaceship around and head back to Earth, accelerating for 10 more years and decelerating for a further 10 before finally arriving back. In total the travelers onboard the spaceship will have been journeying for a total of 40 years. The question is how many years have passed on Earth? We’ll just quote the result because the mathematics is (only a little) beyond the level of this book. The result is that a breathtaking 59,000 years will have passed on Earth!
Why Does E=mc2?
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
There were over 300 control frauds. My study found that the 11th District (California, Arizona, and Nevada) had 58 control frauds (Black 1998). Texas had over 100. Together, California and Texas had over half of the control frauds and produced over half the total losses. Prosecutors convicted over 1,000 S&L insiders of felonies. (That was an unprecedented level of success, particularly given the grossly inadequate resources provided by the Justice Department.) Every detailed study of the most expensive S&L failures found a common pattern that included control fraud (Black, Calavita, and Pontell 1995; Black 1998).
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
William K. Black
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