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was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned,
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa. They
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Be Here Now, a guide to meditation and the wonders of psychedelic drugs by Baba Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert.
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Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe, which extolled the personal and planetary benefits of vegetarianism.
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Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret, an early twentieth-century German-born nutrition fanatic. He
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He turned out to be good in geometry, but he never mastered the use of equations or the rudimentary algebra that existed at the time.
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When he went to PARC for his formal interview, Kay was asked what he hoped his great achievement there would be. "A personal computer," he answered. Asked what that was, he picked up a notebook-size portfolio, flipped open its cover, and said, "This will be a flat-panel display. There'll be a keyboard here on the bottom, and enough power to store your mail, files, music, artwork, and books. All in a package about this size and weighing a co..
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For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30% or so. The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30% better than your average one. What I saw with Woz was somebody who was fifty times better than the average engineer. He could have meetings in his head. The Mac team was an attempt to build a whole team like that, A players. People said they wouldn't get along, they'd hate working with each other. But I realized..
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your book," he said. "I won't even read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about"
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Una de sus maximas clave relativas a la inversion era apostar por la gente mas que por la idea.
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Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, and it became deeply ingrained in his personality. "Steve is very much Zen," said Kottke. "It was a deep influence. You see it in his whole approach of stark, minimalist aesthetics, intense"
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Tengo semejante fe en el ser humano que creo que hablar con las personas es mucho mas importante que esforzarse en averiguar que es lo que quieren hacer>>,
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States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs
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What is it you don't understand about the universe?" Jobs replied, "I don't understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke."
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se describe al director ejecutivo ideal como una persona expansiva, reflexiva y de accion. Grove se dio cuenta de que, en lugar de estar encarnados en un solo individuo, esos rasgos podian darse en un equipo directivo.
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El asunto es que la gente no se vea obligada a recorrer una cadena de mando --indico uno de los tecnicos de Intel, Ted Hoff--. Si uno necesita hablar con un gerente en concreto, va y habla con el.>>
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El exito trae complacencia. La complacencia trae fracaso. Solo sobrevive el paranoico>>.
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declined to keep licensing it out. "If the platform goes closed, it is over," Kahng said. "Total destruction. Closed is the kiss of death." Jobs disagreed. He telephoned Ed Woolard to say he was getting Apple out of the licensing business. The board acquiesced, and in September he reached a deal to pay Power Computing $100 million to relinquish its license and give Apple access to its database of customers. He soon terminated the licenses o..
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Form follows emotion," a play on the familiar maxim that form follows function."
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Apple. One day he was walking the halls and ran into a young Wharton School graduate who had been Amelio's assistant and who said he was wrapping up his work. "Well, good, because I need someone to do grunt work," Jobs told him. His new role was to take notes as Jobs met with the dozens of product teams at Apple, asked" --
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Another key to fielding a great team is pairing visionaries, who can generate ideas, with operating managers, who can execute them. Visions without execution are hallucinations.31
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Jobs, who could identify with each of those sentiments, wrote some of the lines himself, including "They push the human race forward." By the time of the Boston Macworld in early August, they had produced a rough version. They agreed it was not ready, but Jobs used the concepts, and the "think different" phrase, in his keynote speech there. "There's a germ of a brilliant idea there," he said at the time. "Apple is about people who think out..
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As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make"."
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AL ALCORN. Chief engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. 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 of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer
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Innovation can be sparked by engineering talent, but it must be combined with business skills to set the world afire.
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One sunny afternoon, when he wasn't feeling well, Jobs sat in the garden behind his house and reflected on death. He talked about his experiences in India almost four decades earlier, his study of Buddhism, and his views on reincarnation and spiritual transcendence. "I'm about fifty-fifty on believing in God," he said. "For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye." He admitted that, as he faced..
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First and foremost is that creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. This
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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. Therein
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home in Pahrump, Nevada, where he played the penny slot machines and lived off his social security check. He later claimed he had no regrets. "I made the best decision for me at the time. Both of them were real whirlwinds, and I knew my stomach and it wasn't ready for such a ride." * * * Jobs and Wozniak took the stage together for a presentation to the Homebrew Computer Club shortly after they signed Apple into existence. Wozniak held up..
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Terrell, Paul, 66-67, 68 Tesler, Larry, 96-97, 99, 114, 120, 136, 301 Tevanian, Avadis "Avie," xvi, 259, 268, 272-74, 300-301, 303, 308-9, 362, 366, 458-59, 461 textbook industry, 509-10, 554 "There Goes My Love" (song), 498 "Things Have Changed" (song), 412 "Think Different" advertising campaign, vii, xviii, 328-32, 358 original Jobs version, 577 Thomas, Brent, 162 Thomas, Dylan, 19 Through the Looking Glass (Carroll), 235 Thurman, Mrs., 1..
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The Pirates Abandon Ship Upon his return from Europe in August 1985, while he was casting about for what to
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He did, however, invite Jobs to visit him at his hotel before the concert. Jobs recalled: We sat on the patio outside his room and talked for two hours. I was really nervous, because he was one of my heroes. And I was also afraid that he wouldn't be really smart anymore, that he'd be a caricature of himself, like happens to a lot of people. But I was delighted. He was as sharp as a tack. He was everything I'd hoped. He was really open and h..
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The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is either very inclusive or a passionate visionary. But the best leaders could be both. Robert
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atomic power, radar, and the Internet--were spawned by the military.
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Einstein loved Aarau. "Pupils were treated individually," his sister recalled, "more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality." It was the opposite of the German education that Einstein had hated. "When compared to six years' schooling at a German authoritarian gymnasium," Einstein later said, "it made..
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Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
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His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.
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employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. C
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there many afternoons to seek him out. He was entranced
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On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?"
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But what truly devastated Jobs was that he was not, after all, chosen as the Man of the Year.
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