Poem

As the cat

climbed over

the top of

the jamcloset

first the right

forefoot

carefully

then the hind

stepped down

into the pit of

the empty

flowerpot

William Carlos Williams

诗

当猫

爬上

果酱橱

顶

先是右

前足

小心翼翼

接着后足

踩落

到空

花盆的

陷阱里

威廉斯

C U R I O S I T Y

X E R O X X E R O X X E R O X X E R O X

O F F S E T D U P L I C AT O R

M I M E O G R A P H

T H E R M O FA X

C R E AT I V I T Y

C H E S T E R C A R L S O N1 9 0 6 – 1 9 6 8

– H A R O L D C L A R K

“Xerography had practically no foundation in previous scientific work.

Chet put together a rather odd lot of phenomena, each of which was obscure in itself and none of which had previously been related

in anyone’s thinking.

The result was the biggest thing in imaging since the coming of photography itself.”

X E R O G R A P H Y

X E R O G R A P H I C C O P Y # 11 9 3 8

– H A R O L D C L A R K

“The development of xerography was largely empirical.

We were trained scientists, not Yankee tinkers,

but we struck a balance between Yankee tinkering and scientific inquiry.”

B I R T H

# B I L . C O P I E S I N U . S . / Y E A R

3.5

7

10.5

14

1950s 1964 1966

X E R O X

9 1 4

S O C I A L I M PA C T S

B U I LT T O L A S T

– J O S E P H C . W I L S O N , F O U N D E R O F X E R O X

“To set high goals,

to have almost unattainable aspirations,

to imbue people with the belief that they can be achieved

—these are as important as the balance sheet, perhaps more so.”

– P E T E R M C C O L O U G H

“dream of a system whereby you’d write stuff in Connecticut and within hours reprint

it in classrooms all over the country.

The danger in ingenious hardware is that it distracts attention from education.

What good is a wonderful machine if you don’t know what to put on it?”

M O N O P O LY

I N N O VAT I O N

C U LT U R E

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

• Laser printers

• Editor (MS Word)

• PostScript (PDF)

• Ethernet (Internet)

• Smalltalk (C++, Java)

• Ubiquitous computing (wearable, IoT)

• Handheld (smart phone)

• GUI (Windows, OSX)

• Windowing

• Menu

• Copy-n-paste

• Icons

• Fonts

• Folders

• Mouse

山路

我不愿站在山顶俯视，

因为那儿离悬崖不远。

我宁可从山脚开始，

因为那儿只有往高处走的路。

我的理想是爬一座没有尽头的山，

与同道人分享路边的梅花冰激淋与雪莲巧克力。

那些神圣的花儿，

待我们每个人都一样。

未寒蛋