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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1fe45c7 | While she slept, her subconscious untangled the knot that her conscious mind had been unable to. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 06069a1 | Jobs pointed out as we walked in front of his old house. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 114153b | In 1907 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company faced a crisis. The patents of its founder, Alexander Graham Bell, had expired, and it seemed in danger of losing its near-monopoly on phone services. Its board summoned back a retired president, Theodore Vail, who decided to reinvigorate the company by committing to a bold goal: building a system that could connect a call between New York and San Francisco. The challenge required combini.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 341ff7a | I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. | steve-jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| d8759a0 | REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955. REED JOBS. Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell. RON JOHNSON. Hired by Jobs in 2000 to develop Apple's stores. JEFFREY KATZENBERG. Head of Disney Studios, clashed with Eisner and resigned in 1994 to cofound DreamWorks SKG. ALAN KAY. Creative and colorful computer pioneer who envisioned early personal computers, helped arrange Jobs's X.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cee220d | the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 131e64d | He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 87c9e8e | The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as "insanely great" as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it--but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7972d39 | People who were not crushed ended up being stronger. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2ac91ad | I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 06e1446 | Fish and guests stink after three days. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7de919c | Each moment incorporates what came right before and what is coming right after. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| adca231 | What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's been done by others before us. I didn't invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to th.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6ca3fd3 | Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3e114ac | But he also threatened that if Google continued to develop Android and used any iPhone features, such as multi-touch, he would sue. At first Google avoided copying certain features, but in January 2010 HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted multi-touch and many other aspects of the iPhone's look and feel. That was the context for Jobs's pronouncement that Google's "Don't be evil" slogan was "bullshit." -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 168b5f5 | CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison's conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates's philanthropic impulses nor the competitive urge to see how high on the Forbes list he could get. Instead his ego needs and personal drives led him to seek fulfillment by creating a legacy that would awe people. A dual legacy, actually: buildin.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 544f6f0 | White isn't just a neutral color. It is so pure and quiet. Bold and conspicuous and yet so inconspicuous as well. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5a0c805 | Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a941079 | Gates was, after all, a serial stealer of computer time, and he had manipulated passwords to hack into accounts from eighth grade through his sophomore year at Harvard. Indeed, when he claimed in his letter that he and Allen had used more than $40,000 worth of computer time to make BASIC, he omitted the fact that he had never actually paid for that time and that much of it was on Harvard's military-supplied computer, funded by American taxp.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e901af8 | Besides, I believe that older people who have scarcely anything to lose ought to be willing to speak out in behalf of those who are young and are subject to much greater restraint. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c34951d | The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9252497 | Instead, Franklin found "a good and faithful helpmate" who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far more valuable to a rising tradesman." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1fe77e7 | Ever since Apple's first brochure proclaimed "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. "It takes a lot of hard word," he said, "to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions." | steve-jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| 9535433 | Yet Jobs knew that he could manipulate Sculley by encouraging his belief that they were so alike. And the more he manipulated Sculley, the more contemptuous of him he became. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0de81db | As a result, the process of designing a product at Apple was integrally related to how it would be engineered and manufactured. Ive described one of Apple's Power Macs. "We wanted to get rid of anything other than what was absolutely essential," he said. "To do so required total collaboration between the designers, the product developers, the engineers, and the manufacturing" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7ab1e9d | This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company whe.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a4de1f6 | Avie Tevanian, a lanky and gregarious engineer at NeXT who had become Jobs's friend, remembers that every now and then, when they were going out to dinner, they would stop by Chrisann's house to pick up Lisa. "He was very sweet to her," Tevanian recalled. "He was a vegetarian, and so was Chrisann, but she wasn't. He was fine with that. He suggested she order chicken, and she" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b85c870 | By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped the what-next list on his whiteboard that year. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 609f30b | poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 91c5d35 | People with the halo effect seem to know exactly what they're doing and, moreover, make you want to admire them for it. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 14a45db | But when a boy was born--on February 24, 1955--the designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b79db9b | Greg Calhoun, who became close to Jobs right after college, saw another effect. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 113c0eb | When one reporter asked him immediately afterward why the machine was going to be so late, Jobs replied, "It's not late. It's five years ahead of its time." As" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ee7398b | As scientists would discover after Einstein's death, Schwarzschild's odd theory was right. Stars could collapse and create such a phenomenon, and in fact they often did. In the 1960s, physicists such as Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, John Wheeler, Freeman Dyson, and Kip Thorne showed that this was indeed a feature of Einstein's general theory of relativity, one that was very real. Wheeler dubbed them "black holes," and they have been a fea.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 30e2010 | We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e051251 | It was yet another example of Jobs consciously positioning himself at the intersection of the arts and technology. In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches, and even romance. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1a0d214 | His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever read any of my books. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4b2f152 | and she had been unable to have any. So by 1955, after nine years of marriage, they were looking to adopt a child. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ff268e0 | My parents were very open with me about that," he recalled." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1014b9e | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0af07e2 | By the time I got to work, I had this realization that I didn't have any more goals."26 For the next two months, he assiduously tended to the task of finding for himself a worthy life goal. "I looked at all the crusades people could join, to find out how I could retrain myself." What struck him was that any effort to improve the world was complex. He thought about people who tried to fight malaria or increase food production in poor areas a.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 77ce0ef | Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a87b07e | What's the difference between Apple and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult supervision. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ab11d9f | I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits. | Walter Isaacson |