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uncommon around his son, Paul would impart some of his calm. "What's the matter?" he would say. "You got a feather up your ass?" In return he occasionally asked"
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number for my dial-a-joke service was 255-6666." Neither of them knew that in the Book of Revelation 666 symbolized the "number of the beast," but they soon were faced"
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Rupert Murdoch accepta d'ecouter la vision que Jobs avait de Fox News, une chaine que le P-DG d'Apple considerait comme destructrice pour la nation et dangereuse pour la reputation de son patron. << Vous vous plantez avec Fox News, lui dit-il au cours du diner. Il n'y a plus d'un cote les liberaux et de l'autre les conservateurs, la ligne de partage dans le pays, c'est entre ceux qui sont constructifs et les destructeurs, et vous avez soute..
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Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles
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His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever
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The following year, students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, which were not yet connected to the Internet, developed another system, hosted on personal computers, which featured threaded message-and-reply discussion forums. It became known as "Usenet," and the categories of postings on it were called "newsgroups."
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That's a big thing with an invention," Eckert later said, contrasting their machine with Atanasoff's. "You have to have a whole system that works."
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I wanted to buy it because I was really into computer graphics," Jobs recalled. "I realized they were way ahead of others in combining art and technology, which is what I've always been interested in."
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Tribble said that Jobs would not accept any contrary facts. "The best way to describe the situation is a term from Star Trek," Tribble explained. "Steve"
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rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. "Why"
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to itself." Jobs went home early that day to mull over the problem, then called Ive"
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The Innovator's Dilemma.)
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living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the"
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a cette incroyable capacite a inventer des gadgets dont on n'a pas besoin et sans lesquels, brusquement, on ne peut plus vivre.
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All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it." But he immediately proceeded to emphasize the role that "pure reason" and logical deductions play. He conceded, without apology, that his success using tensor calculus to come up with the equations of general relativity had converted him to a faith in a mathematical approach, one that emphasized the simplicity and elegance of equations more than the role of experience. The fac..
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A few days after he unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Jobs held a "town hall" meeting with employees at Apple's campus."
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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."
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Jobs arrived
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year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused
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Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno.
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receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father's electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers, such as the powerful ENIAC.
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They got an apartment in the Sunset District facing the Pacific, just south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a "repo man,"
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Look, Steve, you're my best friend, and Apple is your company. I'll do whatever you want.
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beach bum with a bushy beard, wild hair, goofy grin, and twinkling eyes named Lee Clow, who was the creative director of the agency's office in the Venice Beach section of Los Angeles. Clow was savvy and
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sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married,
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Lightning bolts went off in my head," according to Jobs. "I remember running into the house, crying."
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Creo que las distintas religiones son puertas diferentes para una misma casa. A veces creo que la casa existe, y otras veces que no. Ese es el gran misterio.
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who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the
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cassette tape, no mouse, and minimal graphics. Unlike Jobs, he
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Lasseter and his Pixar team had the first half of the movie ready to screen by November 1993, so they brought it down to Burbank to show to Katzenberg and other Disney executives. Peter Schneider, the head of feature animation, had never been enamored of Katzenberg's idea of having outsiders make animation for Disney, and he declared it a mess and ordered that production be stopped. Katzenberg agreed. "Why is this so terrible?" he asked a c..
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Regardez ! J'ai dessine un cercle ! s'exclama Warhol apres avoir joue avec MacDraw.
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them for at most $9.99. Jobs came in and offered publishers what he had refused to offer record companies: They could set any price they wanted for their
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Also during the crossing, his ship narrowly avoided being wrecked on the Scilly Isles when it sought to evade French privateers in the fog. Franklin described his grateful reaction in a letter home to his wife. "Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint," he wrote. "But as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a lighthouse."
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was also true when it came to personal commitments. If he knew for sure a course of action was right, he was unstoppable. But if he had doubts, he sometimes withdrew, preferring not to think about things that did not perfectly suit him. As happened when Amelio had asked him what role he wanted to
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summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs.
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especially when he was launching a new product that
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He just started
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But now that I was no longer at either of those
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which I had recently joined, and I invited him
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The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking."
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The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.
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