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press or to Congressional committees. Thus the only way secrecy can be kept is to exclude from the making of the decision all those who
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Jobs seemed to have a premonition that his life would soon be changing. Perhaps the thread of his life would indeed
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I'm a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight.
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Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over
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The journey is the reward.
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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."
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Gates soutint le regard de Jobs, puis se mit a crier aussi, de sa voix de fausset : -- Il y a une autre facon de voir les choses, Steve ! Xerox etait notre riche voisin a tous les deux, et quand je suis entre chez lui pour lui voler sa television, j'ai decouvert que tu l'avais deja emportee !
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like it. It sounded almost disco, and he gloomily argued that Dylan had been going downhill since Blood on the Tracks. So Hertzfeld moved the needle to the last song on the album, "Dark Eyes," which was a simple acoustic number featuring Dylan"
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If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!
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Timothy Leary declared that personal computers had become the new LSD and years later revised his famous mantra to proclaim, "Turn on, boot up, jack in."
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There's no way we're slipping!
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The creation of a triangular relationship among government, industry, and academia was, in its own way, one of the significant innovations that helped produce the technological revolution of the late twentieth century.
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the best semiconductor engineers in the country
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convinced Shockley not to launch his own
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Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer that an illiterate six-year-old can use without instruction," Noer wrote. "If that isn't magical, I don't know what is."
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2 The firm changed its name from frogdesign
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Neglect is a form of abuse," she once scrawled on the wall of the hallway to their bedroom. She was entranced by him, but she was also baffled by how uncaring he could be. She would later recall how incredibly painful it was to be in love with someone so self-centered. Caring deeply about someone who seemed incapable of caring was a particular kind of hell that she wouldn't wish on anyone, she said." --
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Fortune proclaimed
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Abandoned. Chosen. Special. Those concepts became part of who Jobs was and how he regarded himself.
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One method, which he had developed during his mock debates with John Collins in Boston and then when discoursing with Keimer, was to pursue topics through soft, Socratic queries. That became the preferred style for Junto meetings. Discussions were to be conducted "without fondness for dispute or desire of victory." Franklin taught his friends to push their ideas through suggestions and questions, and to use (or at least feign) naive curiosi..
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NeXT computer or Pixar movie,
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The Macintosh experience taught me that A players like to work only with other A players, which means you can't indulge B players.
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We try to use the talents we do have to
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his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty. That held true for Jobs in his thirties, during the decade that began with his ouster from Apple in 1985. But after turning forty in 1995, he flourished."
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Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.
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We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."23"
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After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.
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intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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Eisner said he wanted to come to a board meeting, even though he was no
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PRAISE FOR WALTER ISAACSON'S Steve Jobs "This biography is essential reading." --The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide "A superbly told story of a superbly lived life." --The Wall Street Journal "Enthralling." --The New Yorker "A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography . . . a remarkably sharp, hi-res portrait . . . Steve Jobs is more than a good book; it's an urgently necessary one." --Time "An encyclopedic survey of all that Mr. ..
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CONTENTS Epigraph Characters Introduction: How This Book Came to Be CHAPTER ONE Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen CHAPTER TWO Odd Couple: The Two Steves CHAPTER THREE The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In . . . CHAPTER FOUR Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design CHAPTER FIVE The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In . . .
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JONATHAN "RUBY" RUBINSTEIN. Worked with Jobs at NeXT, became chief hardware engineer at Apple in 1997. MIKE SCOTT. Brought in by Markkula to be Apple's president in 1977 to try to manage Jobs. JOHN SCULLEY. Pepsi executive recruited by Jobs in 1983 to be Apple's CEO, clashed with and ousted Jobs in 1985. JOANNE SCHIEBLE JANDALI SIMPSON. Wisconsin-born biological mother of Steve Jobs, whom she put up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she ..
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rather than just websites. Along the way he produced not only transforming products but also, on his second try, a lasting company, endowed with his DNA, that is filled with creative designers and daredevil engineers who could carry forward his vision. In August 2011, right before he stepped down as CEO, the enterprise he started in his parents' garage became the world's most valuable company. This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. ..
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His product comes with an interesting feature called incompatibility," Gates told the Washington Post. "It doesn't run any of the existing software. It's a super-nice computer. I don't think if I went out to design an incompatible computer I would have done as well as he did."
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worth at $872 million.
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we really fucked up the engineering on this
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shaping some of the greatest technological innovations of our time." --The Washington Post "A wonderfully robust biography that not only tracks Jobs's life but also serves as a history of digital technology. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson's ability to shape the story as a kind"
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Markkula replied that lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. "Apple has been sidelined by Microsoft in the PC business," Markkula said. "You've got to reinvent the company to do some other thing, like other consumer products or devices. You've got"
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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 you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.
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in a way that Sony, which had all the assets and heritage, never could accomplish.
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Let's Be Pirates!
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Thus did Ada, Countess of Lovelace, help sow the seeds for a digital age that would blossom a hundred years later.
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We talked a lot about focus. And choosing people. How to know who to trust, and how to build a team of lieutenants he can count on. I described the blocking and tackling he would have to do to keep the company from getting flabby or being larded with B players. The main thing I stressed was focus. Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It's now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the r..
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there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation.
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