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| dcb3b36 | 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." | influence leadership will | Walter Isaacson | |
| cbffe92 | One of his motivating passions was to build a lasting company. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. " I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company," he recalled." The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating. When i got the chance to come back to Ap.. | organizational-leadership | Walter Isaacson | |
| bdaaae3 | The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ae430c2 | He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint," she noted. "He knew the equations that most people didn't know: Things led to their opposites." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3fd5161 | You shouldn't whitewash it. He's good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I'd like to see that it's all told truthfully. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d5c6625 | One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year." Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months." | negotiation opportunity patience risk | Walter Isaacson | |
| 3c90411 | Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 74d2b5f | The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess." The" -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2895c7c | Franklin asserted his conservatism more forcefully. Most notable was an anonymous piece entitled "On the Laboring Poor," which he signed "Medius," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 798e70b | I was originally supposed to become an engineer," he later wrote a friend, "but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a bleak capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. Thinking for its own sake, like music!"72" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c863e08 | Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.' | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1a64754 | The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f6569e9 | he was more comfortable exploring practical thoughts and real-life situations than metaphysical abstractions or deductive proofs. The | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 732ff6b | Another time, he was playing [chess] with his equal, the Duchess of Bourbon, who made a move that inadvertently exposed her king. Ignoring the rules of the game, he promptly captured it. "Ah," said the duchess, "we do not take Kings so." Replied Franklin in a famous quip: "We do in America." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5eea7b1 | The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law."40" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a7a2982 | The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had been told that Eddington was one of them. The shy Quaker said nothing. "Don't be so modest, Eddington!" said Silberstein. Replied Eddington, "On the contrary. I'm just wondering who the third might be."30" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3a60f0b | Yet, ironically, the most tech-cautious parents are the people who invented our iCulture. People are shocked to find out that tech god Steve Jobs was a low-tech parent; in 2010, when a reporter suggested that his children must love the just-released iPad, he replied: "They haven't used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home." In a September, 10, 2014, New York Times article, his biographer Walter Isaacson revealed: "Every eve.. | Nicholas Kardaras | ||
| 78c5e3c | It was a sunny day, and Einstein merrily played with the telescope's dials and instruments. Elsa came along as well, and it was explained to her that the equipment was used to determine the scope and shape of the universe. She reportedly replied, "Well, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6b137f2 | Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7a3f6ef | Franklin ended his "Apology for Printers" with a fable about a father and son traveling with a donkey. When the father rode and made his son walk, they were criticized by those they met; likewise, they were criticized when the son rode and made the father walk, or when they both rode the donkey, or when neither did. So finally, they decided to throw the donkey off a bridge. The moral, according to Franklin, was that it is foolish to try to .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 969a01f | After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. The quote he chose was from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. After Alice laments that no matter how hard she tries she can't believe impossible things, the White Queen retorts, "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Especially from the front rows, there was a roar of knowing la.. | steve-jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| c277233 | America's most dangerous internal threat, he felt, came not from communist subversives but from those who used the fear of communists to trample civil liberties. "America is incomparably less endangered by its own Communists than by the hysterical hunt for the few Communists that are here," he told the socialist leader Norman Thomas." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 003d847 | The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything," she wrote in her "Notes." "It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths." A century later this assertion would be dubbed "Lady Lovelace's Objection" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 63e5375 | His son Peter Bucky happily spent time driving Einstein around, and he later wrote down some of his recollections in extensive notebooks. They provide a delightful picture of the mildly eccentric but deeply un-affected Einstein in his later years. Peter tells, for example, of driving in his convertible with Einstein when it suddenly started to rain. Einstein pulled off his hat and put it under his coat. When Peter looked quizzical, Einstein.. | einstein-quotes einstein-s-life funny sarcastic-humor | Walter Isaacson | |
| dbe9938 | La ventaja competitiva de una sociedad no vendra de lo bien que se ensene en sus escuelas la multiplicacion y las tablas periodicas, sino de lo bien que se sepa estimular la imaginacion y la creatividad. | life-lessons science | Walter Isaacson | |
| e411e89 | I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business. That's how you really make a contribution and add to the legacy of those who went before. You build a company that will still stand for something a generation or two.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| de6a2d3 | Love is infinite, Becca. Like the universe, the stars, the planets. It goes on and on forever. Every time it's different, but it can never be measured or compared. | Joanna Wayne | ||
| df0a9d7 | she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did not. perhaps Iain had thought he could convince her, but grew weary of the endeavor. | Amanda Eyre Ward | ||
| 91aec41 | as she walked back to her husband, lola thought about lying on her expensive sheets and holding a baby - their baby - to her breast. to the baby, lola would smell like a mother, and the ridiculous chandelier would look like stars. | Amanda Eyre Ward | ||
| 37dfe0b | Let us suppose that someone is writing a story. From the world of conventional signs he takes an azalea bush, plants it in a pleasant park. He takes a gold pocket watch from the world of conventional signs and places it under the azalea bush. He takes from the same rich source a handsome thief and a chastity belt, places the thief in the chastity belt and lays him tenderly under the azalea, not neglecting to wind the gold pocket watch so th.. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| ddb5d00 | The writer,' said Donald Barthelme, 'is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.' In this mode of not-knowing, the thick-torsoed, literal, and crew-cut mind is moved to the sidelines in favor of the swinging, perceptive, light-footed, tutu-wearing subconscious. | George Saunders | ||
| bcf79ac | This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor. | muck | Donald Barthelme | |
| 277ea7d | The President looked out of his window. He was not very happy. "I worry about Bill, Hubert, Henry, Kevin, Edward, Clem, Dan and their lover, Snow White. I sense that all is not well with them. Now, looking out over this green lawn, and these fine rosebushes, and into the night and the yellow buildings, and the falling Dow Jones Index and the screams of the poor, I am concerned. I have many important things to worry about, but I worry about .. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 1929378 | Three rebellions ago, the air was fresher. The soft pasting noises of the rebel billposters remind us of Oklahoma, where everything is still the same. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| c8cc5e8 | Little is known about her. We are assured, however, that the same damnable involvements that obsess us obsess her too. Copulation. Strangeness. Applause. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 9b5ee42 | I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I opened my head, at the place provided, and proceeded to pronounce the true thing that lay languishing there--that is, proceeded to propel that trueness, that felicitous trularity, from its place inside my head out into world life. The certain man stood waiting to receive it. His face reflected an eager accepting-ness. Everything was right. .. | language speech truth | Donald Barthelme | |
| e42bb99 | Dan keeps telling Snow White that "Christmas is coming!" How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?" | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 7154e0a | Pia was chopping up an enormous cabbage, a cabbage big as a basketball. The cabbage was of an extraordinary size. It was a big cabbage. "That's a big cabbage," Edward said. "Big," Pia said." -- | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 219c754 | He gives her his Art History lecture. | art-history humor visitors | Donald Barthelme | |
| bfa89b6 | Of course we did everything right, insofar as we were able to imagine what "right" was." | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 0d8b0d8 | Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn't like things that were ineffable... ...a lot of people don't like things that are unearthly, the things of this earth are good enough for them, and they don't mind telling you so. "If he'd just go out and get a job, like everybody else, then he could be saintly all day long..." --from "The Temptations of St. Anthony," by Donald Barthelme" | humor sainthood short-story | Donald Barthelme | |
| 74c9bf2 | This was the danger of sharing your dreams with your parents. If you told them you wanted to learn to play the guitar, all they heard you say was, "I want to learn to play the guitar," and then they found some practical, convenient, cheap way, often involving a church basement, for you to do it. But Hector had not come up with any plan of his own. And owning a guitar seemed like an important stepping stone on the way to being a guitar playe.. | guitar parents | Lynne Rae Perkins | |
| ed1e1ff | We are wolves of the guard, soldiers of the light. Hunted and haunted,bye the beasts of night. Friend to all and foe to none, Love and loyalty bind us as one. Time and tide shall heal all wounds Memories and madness shall not consume. To death and despair we shall never surrender, The pact never to be forsaken, or torn asunder. | wolf-pact | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| dd9e760 | There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present. | Melissa de la Cruz |