When Steve Jobs was trying to lure John Sculley to be Apple’s CEO in the early 1980’s, he asked him, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” Sculley would achieve little at Apple, but Jobs would later make it the most valuable company on the planet.
Image: Dharmendra Modha, chief scientist for Brain Inspired Computing at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), works in the SyNAPSE chip testing room at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg