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After I had deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him, I heard from him every
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special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio. 1. At his home in Woodside, 1982: He was such a perfectionist that he had
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intention. I am grateful to those who have been forgiving of my lapses
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In the early summer of 2004, I got a
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STEPHEN WOZNIAK. The star electronics geek at Homestead High; Jobs figured out how to package and market his amazing circuit
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daughter Lisa (A Regular Guy), and her father Abdulfattah Jandali (The Lost Father). ALVY RAY SMITH. A cofounder of Pixar who clashed with Jobs. BURRELL SMITH. Brilliant, troubled hardware designer on
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AVADIS "AVIE" TEVANIAN. Worked with Jobs and Rubinstein at NeXT, became chief software engineer"
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engineer at Apple in 1997. MIKE SCOTT. Brought in by Markkula to be Apple's president in 1977 to try to manage Jobs.
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SCULLEY. Pepsi executive recruited by Jobs in 1983 to be Apple's CEO, clashed with and ousted
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NeXT, became chief hardware engineer at Apple in 1997. MIKE SCOTT. Brought in by Markkula to be Apple's president
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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 raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became close. She wrote novels loosely based on her mother Joanne (Anywhere but Here), Jobs and h..
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project aside for a while. Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his sister, the writer Mona Simpson. His wife and their three children had taken a quick trip to go skiing, but he was not healthy enough to join them. He was in a reflective mood, and we talked for more than an hour. He
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her that when he had first raised the idea, I hadn't known he was sick. 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. I decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advance. "It's your book," he said. "I won't even read it." But later..
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began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out." He didn't seek any control over what I wrote, or even ask to read it in advance. His only involvement came w..
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This would require moving a million tons of earth, and Leonardo calculated the man-hours necessary by doing a detailed time-and-motion study, one of the first in history. He figured out everything from the weight of one shovel-load of dirt (twenty-five pounds) to how many shovel-loads would fill a wheelbarrow (twenty). His answer: it would take approximately 1.3 million man-hours, or 540 men working 100 days, to dig the Arno diversion ditch..
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Study of light hitting a head.
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The kids in the Explorers Club were encouraged to do projects, and Jobs decided to build a frequency counter, which measures the number of pulses per second in an electronic signal. He needed some parts that HP made, so he picked up the phone and called the CEO. "Back then, people didn't have unlisted numbers. So I looked up Bill Hewlett in Palo Alto and called him at home. And he answered and chatted with me for twenty minutes. He got me t..
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Oddest of all, there is this entry: "Go every Saturday to the hot bath where you will see naked men."10 We can imagine Leonardo wanting to do"
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Para Leonardo, haber nacido fuera del matrimonio propicio que no tuviera que ser enviado a una de las <> que ensenaban los clasicos y las humanidades a los aspirantes a profesionales y a los comerciantes del Quattrocento.
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Las personas lo suficientemente locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo son las que lo cambian
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Bushnell agreed. "There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve,"he said. "He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, 'Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are."
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simply enjoy giving more than receiving in every respect, do not take myself nor the doings of the masses seriously, am not ashamed of my weaknesses and vices, and naturally take things as they come with equanimity and humor.
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At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.
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rock--Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era.
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Being a Jew was a disadvantage; being a nonbeliever who claimed no religion was a disqualifier. The empire required that all of its servants, including professors, be a member of some religion. On his official forms, Einstein had written that he had none. "Einstein is as unpractical as a child in cases like this," Friedrich Adler's wife noted."
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Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.
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Many years later, after Friedland had become a billionaire copper and gold mining executive--working out of Vancouver, Singapore, and Mongolia--I met him for drinks in New York. That evening I emailed Jobs and mentioned my encounter. He telephoned me from California within an hour and warned me against listening to Friedland. He said that when Friedland was in trouble because of environmental abuses committed by some of his mines, he had tr..
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His comparisons between man-made machinery and the handiwork of nature produced in him a deep reverence for the latter. "Though human ingenuity may make various inventions," he wrote, "it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, more direct than does Nature; because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."15"
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Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.
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While painting The Last Supper, Leonardo would sometimes stare at the work for an hour, finally make one small stroke, and then leave. He told Duke Ludovico that creativity requires time for ideas to marinate and intuitions to gel. "Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least," he explained, "for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form."..
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An academic career in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts creates a danger of intellectual superficiality," he said."
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La Bella Principessa: The Story of the New Masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci.31
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deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him, I heard from him every now and then. At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-laced apple. He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the..
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He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and
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The open sniping between Jobs and Eisner began in the summer of 2002
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Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57"
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According to the assumption to be considered here, when a light ray is propagated from a point, the energy is not continuously distributed over an increasing space but consists of a finite number of energy quanta which are localized at points in space and which can be produced and absorbed only as complete units.
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new sister for the first time, he was led to believe that she was like a wonderful toy that he would enjoy. His response was to look at her and exclaim, "Yes, but where are the wheels?"12 It may not have been the most perceptive of questions,"
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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.
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it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority." 57"
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Leonardo fue pionero en un nuevo estilo que trataba los cuadros narrativos, e incluso los retratos, como explicaciones psicologicas.
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Adolf Hitler polled highest as the "greatest living person." Albert Einstein was second."
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When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau Inn refused her a room. So Einstein invited her to stay at his house on Mercer Street, in what was a deeply personal as well as a publicly symbolic gesture. Two
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As a Jew who had grown up in Germany, Einstein was acutely sensitive to such discrimination. "The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me," he wrote in an essay called "The Negro Question" for Pageant magazine. "I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out."
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