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for New Year's, with Powell and Mona Simpson taking turns staying at home with Jobs in Palo Alto.
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Won't Work." Apple's former chief financial officer,"
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Raskin died of pancreatic cancer in 2005, not long after Jobs was diagnosed with the disease.
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The Adoption When Paul Jobs 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, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn't his looks that got him a date
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landed after fleeing the Turks in Armenia, and they moved to the Mission District of San Francisco when she was a child. She had a secret that she rarely mentioned to anyone: She had been married before, but her husband had been killed in the war. So when she met Paul Jobs
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Arthur Schieble died in August 1955, after the adoption was finalized. Just after Christmas that year, Joanne and Abdulfattah were married in St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Green Bay. He got his PhD in international politics the next year, and then they had another child, a girl named Mona. After she and Jandali divorced in 1962, Joanne embarked on a dreamy and peripatetic life that her daughter, who grew up to become the acclaim..
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designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.
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the son not of a lawyer but of a high school dropout with a passion for mechanics and his salt-of-the-earth wife who was working as a bookkeeper. Paul and Clara named their new
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most grounded people I have ever met. "There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and"
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There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
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horses and ride them," he told Jobs. "You guys are the ones I'm betting on, so you figure it out." Perot brought to NeXT something that was almost as valuable as his $20 million lifeline: He was a quotable, spirited"
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At first Jobs seemed to have pulled off Gates's worst nightmare. Other computer makers that were beholden to Microsoft's operating systems, most notably Compaq and
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More than three thousand people showed up at the event, lining up two hours before curtain time. They were not disappointed, at least by the show. Jobs was onstage for three hours, and he again proved to be, in the words of Andrew Pollack
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relented, but it left Hertzfeld with a bad taste. When his leave was coming to an end, Hertzfeld made an appointment to have dinner with Jobs, and they walked from his office to an Italian restaurant a few blocks away. "I really want to return," he told Jobs. "But things seem really messed up right now." Jobs was vaguely annoyed and distracted, but Hertzfeld plunged ahead. "The software team is completely"
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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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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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