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The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations," he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. "The conduct of the German intellectuals--viewed as a class--was no better than that of the mob."
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the shadows caressed the folds. I tried to see how light that was reflected from one object subtly colored the shadows of another object. I noticed how the glint of a lustrous spot on a shiny surface moved when I tilted my head. When I looked at a distant tree and a near one, I tried to visualize the lines of perspective. When I saw an eddy of water, I compared it to a ringlet of hair. When I couldn't understand a math concept, I did the be..
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I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.
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Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief object of science.
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Einstein's pacifism, world federalism, and aversion to nationalism were part of a political outlook that also included a passion for social justice, a sympathy for underdogs, an antipathy toward racism, and a predilection toward socialism.
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The exponential growth of this industry was correlated with the phenomenon famously discovered by Moore, who in 1965 drew a graph of the speed of integrated circuits, based on the number of transistors that could be placed on a chip, and showed that it doubled about every two years, a trajectory that could be expected to continue. This was reaffirmed in 1971, when Intel was able to etch a complete central processing unit onto one chip, the ..
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my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world.
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He tried to maintain a middle ground between those who were reflexively anti-American and those who were reflexively anti-Soviet.
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation
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Berkeley to Jobs's house
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While a student in McCollum's class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher's all- time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry in the class. Stephen Wozniak, whose younger brother had been on a swim team with Jobs, was almost five years older than Jobs and far more knowledgeable about electronics. But emotionally and socially he was still a high school geek.
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For the generation that's grown up in a world where computers are the norm, smartphones feel like fifth limbs and music comes from the Internet rather than record and CD stores, Steve Jobs is must-read history. . . . The intimate chapters, where Jobs's personal side shines through, with all his faults and craziness, leave a deep impression. There's humor, too . . . it's a rich portrait of one of the greatest minds of our generation." --Asso..
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one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Jobs felt that design simplicity should be linked to making products easy to use. Those goals do not always go together. Sometimes a design can be so sleek and simple that a user finds it intimidating or unfriendly to navigate. "The main thing in our design is that we have to"
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floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital, sick with duodenal
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Me gusta pensar que hay algo que sobrevive despues de morir --comento--. Resulta extrano pensar que puedas acumular toda esta experiencia y tal vez algo de sabiduria, y que simplemente desaparezca, asi que quiero creer que hay algo que sobrevive, que a lo mejor tu conciencia resiste>>. Se quedo callado durante un buen rato. <>. Entonc..
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Jobs began to accompany Wozniak to Homebrew meetings, carrying the TV monitor and helping to set things up. The meetings now attracted more than one hundred enthusiasts and had been moved to the auditorium of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Presiding with a pointer and a free-form manner was Lee Felsenstein, another embodiment of the merger between the world of computing and the counterculture. He was an engineering school dropout, ..
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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 of archetypal fantasy: the flawed hero, the noble quest, the holy grail, the
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Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity. He could construct complex equations, but more important, he knew that math is the language nature uses to describe her wonders. So he could visualize how equa..
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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. "Even ill, his taste, his discrimination, and his judgment held. He went through sixty-seven nurses before ..
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have helped me make corrections or clear a few things up. And as always, I am most deeply indebted to my wife, Cathy, for her editing, suggestions, wise counsel, and so very much more.
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lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves.
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So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple.
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Jobs's father had once taught him that a drive for perfection meant caring about the craftsmanship even of the parts unseen. Jobs applied that to the layout of the circuit board inside the Apple II. He rejected the initial design because the lines were not straight enough. This
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It's a testament to Isaacson's skill as a biographer that readers can at last obtain the picture of Steve Jobs as a human being rather than a legend . . . anyone who's ever wondered how so very much about the technology landscape has changed so fundamentally in just thirty-five years, owes it to themselves to read this book." --TUAW.com "Walter Isaacson's book is an unflinching biography of a manifestly"
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much of my time trying to convince people to do
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In his excitement, Jobs began to take over the daily management of the Lisa project, which was being run by John Couch, the former HP engineer.
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He held himself back for a while, but not for long.
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Over dinner at a Georgian restaurant that specialized in shish kebab, Jobs continued his rant.
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We are evaluating what possible actions should be taken.
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I said, 'My God,' and hired him on the spot," Jobs recalled."
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A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the corr..
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Religion was at it's best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith, rather than living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's a great mystery."
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Los ordenadores de hoy son idiotas brillantes
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inevitable call from him saying, "This hotel sucks, let's go." But Ive also captured the scattershot brilliance at the core of Jobs's genius when he described his boss tossing out ideas at a meeting. "Sometimes they were dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But"
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An Integrated Package As Jobs walked the floor of the Personal Computer Festival, he came to the realization that Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop had been right: Personal computers should come in a complete package.
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1. Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011. 2. Computer engineers--United States--Biography. 3. Businesspeople--United States--Biography. 4. Apple Computer, Inc.--History. I. Title. QA76.2.J63I83 2011 621.39092--dc23 [B] 2011045006 ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9 ISBN 978-1-4516-4854-6 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-4516-4855-3 (ebook)
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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
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Stanford commencement address; Andy Behrendt, "Apple Computer Mogul's Roots Tied to Green Bay," (Green Bay) Press Gazette, Dec. 4, 2005; Georgina Dickinson, "Dad Waits for Jobs to iPhone," New York Post and The Sun (London), Aug. 27, 2011; Mohannad Al-Haj Ali, "Steve Jobs Has Roots in Syria," Al Hayat, Jan. 16, 2011; Ulf Froitzheim, "Portrat Steve Jobs," Unternehmen, Nov. 26, 2007. Silicon Valley: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell...
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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
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Motors in 1956. By the end of December 1980, Apple would be valued at $1.79 billion. Yes, billion. In the process it would make three
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away." Bono"
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girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York City. NOLAN BUSHNELL. Founder of Atari and
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not one of them. He had been Jobs's soul mate in college, in India,
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