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I said, 'My God,' and hired him on the spot," Jobs recalled."
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A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the corr..
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Religion was at it's best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith, rather than living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's a great mystery."
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Los ordenadores de hoy son idiotas brillantes
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inevitable call from him saying, "This hotel sucks, let's go." But Ive also captured the scattershot brilliance at the core of Jobs's genius when he described his boss tossing out ideas at a meeting. "Sometimes they were dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But"
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An Integrated Package As Jobs walked the floor of the Personal Computer Festival, he came to the realization that Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop had been right: Personal computers should come in a complete package.
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1. Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011. 2. Computer engineers--United States--Biography. 3. Businesspeople--United States--Biography. 4. Apple Computer, Inc.--History. I. Title. QA76.2.J63I83 2011 621.39092--dc23 [B] 2011045006 ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9 ISBN 978-1-4516-4854-6 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-4516-4855-3 (ebook)
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Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter
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Stanford commencement address; Andy Behrendt, "Apple Computer Mogul's Roots Tied to Green Bay," (Green Bay) Press Gazette, Dec. 4, 2005; Georgina Dickinson, "Dad Waits for Jobs to iPhone," New York Post and The Sun (London), Aug. 27, 2011; Mohannad Al-Haj Ali, "Steve Jobs Has Roots in Syria," Al Hayat, Jan. 16, 2011; Ulf Froitzheim, "Portrat Steve Jobs," Unternehmen, Nov. 26, 2007. Silicon Valley: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell...
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I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, 'Pretend to be completely in control and people will
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Motors in 1956. By the end of December 1980, Apple would be valued at $1.79 billion. Yes, billion. In the process it would make three
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away." Bono"
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girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York City. NOLAN BUSHNELL. Founder of Atari and
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not one of them. He had been Jobs's soul mate in college, in India,
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El viaje es la recompensa>>, rezaba.
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The classic account of the Americans who rebuilt the world after the destruction of World War II.
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Digital Revolution The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's biographical story of the pioneers of the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works. The
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Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell, George Riley, Kristina Kiehl, Kathryn Smith. John Lauerman and Connie Guglielmo, "Jobs Liver Transplant," Bloomberg, Aug. 21, 2009. Return: Interviews with Steve Jobs, George Riley, Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Brian Roberts, Andy Hertzfeld. CHAPTER"
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Explorers Club, a group of fifteen or so students who met in the company cafeteria on
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So starting in 1999 Apple began to produce application software for the Mac, with a focus
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As Osborne famously declared, "Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous." Jobs found that approach to be morally appalling, and he spent days making fun of Osborne. "This guy just doesn't get it," Jobs repeatedly railed as he wandered the Apple corridors. "He's not making art, he's making shit."
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That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction was to wonder, half jokingly, whether he saw himself as the natural successor in that sequence. Because I assumed that he was still in the middle o..
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But Jobs's most poignant ruminations were about growing old and facing the future: Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. ...If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever..
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You did the impossible, because you didn't realize it was impossible." At"
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It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden. "He loved doing things right. He even care about the look of the parts you couldn't see."
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Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back.
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I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod." Across"
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Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating. After" --
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Lower Manhattan to tell me that whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him.
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At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-laced apple. He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and I found myself gathering string on the subject, just in case I eve..
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Steve Jobs was famously stubborn and
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The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost," Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that the tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it's not that simple. At the company he founded after being ousted from Apple, Jobs was able to indulge all of his instincts, both good and bad. He was unbound. The result was a series of spectacular products that were dazzling market flops. This wa..
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decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advance. "It's your book," he said. "I won't even read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn't know it, was hit by another round of cancer complications. He stopped returning my calls, and I put the project aside for a while."
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she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping it a secret, she explained. I decided
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La conciencia publica es un componente importante de la innovacion.
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Like many aspects of the digital age, this idea that innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humanities and sciences interact.
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What would have happened if Franklin had, in fact, received a formal academic education and gone to Harvard? Some historians such as Arthur Tourtellot argue that he would have been stripped of his "spontaneity," "intuitive" literary style, "zest," "freshness," and the "unclutteredness" of his mind. And indeed, Harvard has been known to"
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Outside of Search, Google's products--Android, Google Docs--are shit.
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When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that.
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but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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and Woody, and he loved the fact that Ive and John Lasseter shared the talent to connect art with technology in a playful way. Pixar was a haven where Jobs could escape the intensity in Cupertino.
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Many people who celebrate the arts and the humanities, who applaud vigorously the tributes to their importance in our schools, will proclaim without shame (and sometimes even joke) that they don't understand math or physics. They extoll the virtues of learning Latin, but they are clueless about how to write an algorithm or tell BASIC from C++, Python from Pascal. They consider people who don't know Hamlet from Macbeth to be Philistines, yet..
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que se convertiria en otro ejemplo de como la financiacion publica de la investigacion especulativa se amortiza a la larga cientos de veces en aplicaciones practicas.
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But when he and Zuse proposed it to the German Army in 1942, the commanders said they were confident that they would win the war before the two years it would take to build such a machine.
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