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others wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked
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So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way
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would come in after Lang and others had left and work through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On
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thus isolated, he became known for his brashness.
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through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On those occasions
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We've got a hippie kid in the lobby. He says he's not going to leave until we hire him. Should we call the cops or
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became one of the first fifty employees at Atari, working as a technician for $5 an hour. "In retrospect, it was"
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Kottke found Kobun amusing.
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What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely?" Einstein asked. "I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions."
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The key venue for freewheeling discourse was the Monday morning executive team gathering, which started at 9 and went for three or four hours. The focus was always on the future: What should each product do next? What new things should be developed? Jobs used the meeting to enforce a sense of shared mission at Apple. This served to centralize control, which made the company seem as tightly integrated as a good Apple product, and prevented t..
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Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.
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and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated
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Posle vstrechi s Dzhobsom on soglasilsia. "Ia vybiraiu zhokeev, a zhokei vybiraiut loshadei, - skazal on Dzhobsu. - Ia stavliu na vas, rebiata, a vy uzh soobrazhaite"."
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Lozung Bazza Laitera "Beskonechnost' - ne predel!"
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Reviziia produktsii nachalas' s uprazdneniia PowerPoint. "Terpet' ne mogu, kogda liudi pokazyvaiut slaidy vmesto togo, chtoby dumat', - ob'iasnial potom Dzhobs. - Oni rassmatrivaiut problemu s pomoshch'iu prezentatsii. Ia khotel, chtoby liudi vkliuchalis', chtoby obsuzhdali voprosy za stolom, a ne razgliadyvali kartinki. Esli chelovek znaet, o chem govorit, emu ne nuzhen PowerPoint"."
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Eshche so vremen vykhoda pervogo reklamnogo bukleta, glasivshego: "Prostota predel'no slozhna", Dzhobs stremilsia k prostote, kotoraia zakliuchalas' v preodolenii slozhnostei, a ne v ikh izbeganii."
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Esli chto-to vas ne ustraivaet, nel'zia govorit': "a, ladno, ispravim potom", - ob'iasnial Dzhobs. - Tak postupaiut v drugikh kompaniiakh."
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Liubopytstvo - samaia vazhnaia shtuka na svete.
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Interviews with Steve Jobs,
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freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin', and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is.
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The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.
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What drove me?
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On its first over was the famous picture of Earth taken from space; its subtitle was "Access to Tools." The underlying philosophy was that technology could be our friend. Brand wrote on the first page of the first edition, "A realm of intimate, personal power is developing- power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that..
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One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year."
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Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. " Anyone who spent more than a half hour with Amelio would realize that he couldn't do anything but self destruct," he later said"
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five chips.
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I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft.
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afternoon,
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Sometimes innovation is a matter of timing. A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.
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He's a very, very sensitive guy. That's one of the things that makes his antisocial behavior, his rudeness, so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people. I once asked him why he gets so mad about stuff. He said, "But I don't stay mad." He has this very childish ability to get really worked up about something, and it doesn't stay with him at all. But there are other ..
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Cutting the cake in the shape of Half Dome with Laurene and his daughter from a previous relationship, Lisa Brennan.
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Finally, on the day that he was scheduled to make the big announcement, Amelio called Jobs in. He needed an answer. "Steve, do you just want"
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On ponimal, chto bogatyi urozhai vyrastaet iz gorstki semian, a sderzhannost' rozhdaet naslazhdenie, - pisala ona. - Emu byla znakoma formula, o kotoroi ne vedaet bol'shinstvo liudei: odno vedet k sovershenno drugomu"."
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Einstein rejected the emission theory in favor of postulating that the speed of a light beam was constant no matter how fast its source was moving.
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It made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of a Macintosh.
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Jobs spent part of every day for six months helping to refine the display. "It was the most complex fun I've ever had," he recalled. "It was like being the one evolving the variations on 'Sgt. Pepper.' " A lot of features that seem simple now were the result of creative brainstorms. For example, the team worried about how to prevent the device from playing music or making a call accidentally when it was jangling in your pocket. Jobs was con..
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So [Steve Jobs] had the Pixar building designed to promote encounters and unplanned collaborations ... "to make people get out of their offices and mingle in the central atrium with people they might not otherwise see." The front doors and main stairs and corridors all led to the atrium, the cafe and the mailboxes were there, the conference rooms had windows that looked out onto it, and the six-hundred-seat theater and two smaller screening..
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Marsalis later recalled, "I don't care much about computers, and kept telling him so, but he goes on for two hours. He was a man possessed. After a while, I started looking at him and not the computer, because I was so fascinated with his passion."
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Critical comments by students should be taken in a friendly spirit," he said. "Accumulation of material should not stifle the student's independence." A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."
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In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I'd worked. But now that I was no longer at either of those places, I hadn't heard from him much. We talked a bit about the Aspen Institute, which I had recently joined, a..
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The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.
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had the rights to make all the sequels and exploit the characters. "I made a presentation that said, here's the 15% of Pixar that Disney does not already own. So that's"
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Sculley began to believe that Jobs's mercurial personality and erratic treatment of people were rooted deep in his psychological makeup, perhaps the reflection of a mild bipolarity.
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