America the Ingenious Quotes

“Impressed deep in the psyche of America, the most literate society ever founded, was the idea that you could improve yourself—morally, philosophically, financially—through the written word.”
― Kevin Baker, America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World

“More daunting is the natural technology of the brain itself. True North can simulate 1 million neurons and 256 million synapses. The human brain has some 100 million neurons and maybe up to 1 quadrillion synapses—all of which it runs at just 1/40,000 of the power it takes to keep a personal computer humming.”
― Kevin Baker, America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World

“In 1934, the Chrysler/DeSoto Airflows were a revolution in design, sleeker, lower, and closer to the ground than anything then on the road, with a full steel body. They nearly wrecked the company, thanks in part to a number of glitches that had escaped notice, such as engines occasionally breaking loose from their mountings when the car reached eighty miles an hour.”
― Kevin Baker, America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World