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had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time's editors
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attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded
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That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way
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How This Book Came to Be
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parts. Jobs said that the past twelve years of his life, since his return to Apple, had been
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read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn't know it, was hit"
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wanted to build a frequency counter when he was twelve, and he was able to look up Bill
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father figure to Jobs. REGIS MCKENNA. Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor. MIKE MURRAY. Early Macintosh marketing director. PAUL OTELLINI. CEO of Intel who helped switch the Macintosh to Intel chips but did not get the iPhone business. LAURENE POWELL. Savvy and good-humored Penn graduate, went to Goldman Sachs and then Stanford
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DreamWorks SKG. ALAN KAY. Creative and colorful computer pioneer who envisioned early personal computers, helped arrange Jobs's Xerox PARC visit and his purchase of Pixar. DANIEL KOTTKE. Jobs's closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee. JOHN LASSETER. Cofounder and creative force at Pixar. DAN'L LEWIN. Marketing exec with Jobs at Apple and then NeXT. MIKE MARKKULA. First big Apple investor and chairman, a father ..
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That started an exchange about the early history
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book. When my Einstein biography came out, he came to a book event in Palo Alto and
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the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-
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Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $ 1 a year in pay and no stock options. "I make 50 cents for showing up,"he liked to joke, "and the other 50 cents is based on performance."Since his return in July 1997, Apple stock had gone from just under $ 14 to just over $..
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Almost nobody knew, 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.
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On a trip to London with Jobs, Ive had the thankless task of choosing the hotel. He picked the Hempel, a tranquil five- star boutique hotel with a sophisticated minimalism that he thought Jobs would love. But as soon as they checked in, he braced himself, and sure enough his phone rang a minute later. "I hate my room,"Jobs declared. "It's a piece of shit, let's go."So Ive gathered his luggage and went to the front desk, where Jobs bluntly t..
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So Germany in the 1920s was not a good place or time to be an internationalist, pacifist, intellectual Jew.
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The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified . . . It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them.
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Leonardo's initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on human skulls. He started with a skull that had been sawed in half, top to bottom (fig. 60). Then the front of the left half was sawed off. His groundbreaking technique of drawing the two halves together made it easy to see how the inner cavities were positioned relative to the face. For example, the frontal sinus, which Leonardo is the first person to correctly depict, is shown to rest j..
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In a letter to Pixar shareholders, Jobs explained that winning the right to have equal branding with Disney on all the movies, as well as advertising and toys, was the most important aspect of the deal. "We want Pixar to grow into a brand that embodies the same level of trust as the Disney brand,"he wrote. "But in order for Pixar to earn this trust, consumers must know that Pixar is creating the films."Jobs was known during his career for c..
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Kenneth Clark referred to Leonardo's "inhumanly sharp eye." It's a nice phrase, but misleading. Leonardo was human. The acuteness of his observational skill was not some superpower he possessed. Instead, it was a product of his own effort. That's important, because it means that we can, if we wish, not just marvel at him but try to learn from him by pushing ourselves to look at things more curiously and intensely."
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The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified... It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my achievements and the reality is simply grotesque. This extraordinary state of affairs would be unbearable but for one great consoling thought: ..
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Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house," he said. "The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness."
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It is a joy for me to have a son who has inherited the main traits of my personality: the ability to rise above mere existence by sacrificing one's self through the years for an impersonal goal.
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fired, abused, abandoned, or otherwise infuriated, and I feared he would not be comfortable with my getting them to talk. And indeed he did turn out to be skittish when word trickled back to him of
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economies in the twenty-first century. I asked Jobs why he wanted me to be the one to write his
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He was a man of outstanding beauty and infinite grace," Vasari said of him. "He was striking and handsome, and his great presence brought comfort to the most troubled soul."
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Man stands on this diminutive earth, gazes at the myriad stars and upon billowing oceans and tossing trees--and wonders. What does it all mean? How did it come about?
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In collecting such a medley of ideas, Leonardo was following a practice that had become popular in Renaissance Italy of keeping a commonplace and sketch book, known as a zibaldone. But in their content, Leonardo's were like nothing the world had ever, or has ever, seen. His notebooks have been rightly called "the most astonishing testament to the powers of human observation and imagination ever set down on paper."3"
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So as he grew old, he was not only respected and revered by his colleagues, he was loved.
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He was able to avoid pedantry by regularly bringing his theories down to earth, so to speak, and tying them to practical applications. As he instructed himself in a typical notebook jotting, "When you put together the science of the motions of water, remember to include under each proposition its application, in order that this science may not be useless."15"
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As usual, he combined experience and experiment; in fact he used the same word, esperienza, for both. While in Florence, he devised a pair of goggles for his dives in the Arno so he could study the water as it flowed past a weir. He threw oak apples or corks into a river and counted "beats of time" to study how long it took those in the center and those nearer the banks to move two hundred feet. He made floats that could hover at different ..
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Most of Leonardo's drawings for Pacioli's book, which was finished in 1498, are variations of the five shapes known as Platonic solids. These are polyhedrons that have the same number of faces meeting at each vertex: pyramids, cubes, octahedrons (eight faces), dodecahedrons (twelve), and icosahedrons (twenty). He also illustrated more complex shapes, such as a rhombicuboctahedron, which has twenty-six facets, eight of them equilateral trian..
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Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.
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Jobs also attacked America's education system, saying that it was hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules. Until the teachers'unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform. Teachers should be treated as professionals, he said, not as industrial assembly- line workers. Principals should be able to hire and fire them based on how good they were. Schools should be staying open until at least 6 p.m. and be in ..
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7. At NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.
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every grain of sand. Joan Baez sang the mournful yet uplifting spiritual, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Each member of the family recounted a few stories or read a poem. "His mind was never a captive of reality," Laurene said. "He possessed an epic sense of possibility. He looked at things from the standpoint of perfection." Mona Simpson, as befitting a novelist, had a finely crafted eulogy. "He was an intensely emotional man," she recalled. ..
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strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin
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Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance
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nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for
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medical leave. I confessed to her that when he had
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decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised
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