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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5c6b979 | nowadays sound embarrassing. Jobs wanted Apple "to become a wonderful consumer products company," Sculley wrote. "This was a lunatic plan. . . . Apple would never be a consumer products company. . . . We couldn't bend reality to all our dreams of changing the world. . . . High tech could not be designed and sold" -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5378091 | Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0fb875b | One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other 'My little computer said such a funny thing this morning!' " he japed in 1951." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9210f1e | Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space--I | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4b8f00a | But Sony couldn't. It had pioneered portable music with the Walkman, it had a great record company, and it had a long history of making beautiful consumer devices. It had all of the assets to compete with Jobs's strategy of integration of hardware, software, devices, and content sales. Why did it fail? Partly because it was a company, like AOL Time Warner, that was organized into divisions (that word itself was ominous) with their own botto.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fbd1da1 | Einstein would not, as it turned out, ever win a Nobel for his work on relativity and gravitation, nor for anything other than the photoelectric effect. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3b6a471 | We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years," recalled Powell. "We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, 'What is the purpose of a sofa?' " | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 11d472a | Jobs barked at him. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 24e6ac9 | was supposed to have a | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e2c95ee | Cutting the cake in the shape of Half Dome with Laurene and his daughter from a previous relationship, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 71d3cf5 | Most outside experts disagreed. "Maybe it's time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently," Business Week wrote in a story headlined "Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 14b6efa | crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. --Apple's "Think Different" commercial, 1997" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b6ea2a9 | People don't know what they want until you show it to them. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8ebc6b6 | Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death, because they know they are guilty. Outside of Search, Google's products--Android, Google Docs--ar.. | antitrust apple competition google htc intellectual-property ipad iphone law microsoft | Walter Isaacson | |
| 559acf5 | As it turned out, Microsoft wasn't able to get Windows 1.0 ready for shipping until the fall of 1985. Even then, it was a shoddy product. It lacked the elegance of the Macintosh interface, and it had tiled windows rather than the magical clipping of overlapping windows that Bill Atkinson had devised. Reviewers ridiculed it and consumers spurned it. Nevertheless, as is often the case with Microsoft products, persistence eventually made Windo.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ab603e2 | When the design was finally locked in, Jobs called the Macintosh team together for a ceremony. "Real artists sign their work," he said. So he got out a sheet of drafting paper and a Sharpie pen and had all of them sign their names. The signatures were engraved inside each Macintosh. No one would ever see them, but the members of the team knew that their signatures were inside, just as they knew that the circuit board was laid out as elegant.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7b34dc8 | He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 50c5097 | I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c9cee5d | The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn't his looks that got him a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweet-humored daughter.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7eeb3f1 | Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away, and Jobs would figure out how to make it user-friendly, put it together in a package, market it, and make a few bucks. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c769c06 | wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue with" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 28d10ee | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1cd78d0 | wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 407edb6 | let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue with" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6564641 | to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue with" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1e6356a | In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| db8c299 | Still allergic to PowerPoints and formal presentations, he insisted that the people around the table hash out issues from various vantages and the perspectives of different departments. Because he believed that Apple's great advantage was its integration of the whole widget- from design to hardware to software to content-he wanted all departments at the company to work together in parallel. The phrases he used were "deep collaboration" and.. | collaboration | Walter Isaacson | |
| 34e5b0f | others wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 110a281 | So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8faacf9 | would come in after Lang and others had left and work through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b588484 | thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b945c31 | through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On those occasions | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bcf08ea | We've got a hippie kid in the lobby. He says he's not going to leave until we hire him. Should we call the cops or | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 07d4e58 | became one of the first fifty employees at Atari, working as a technician for $5 an hour. "In retrospect, it was" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| baee2e5 | Kottke found Kobun amusing. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ceb971e | What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely?" Einstein asked. "I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b1ce7f8 | The key venue for freewheeling discourse was the Monday morning executive team gathering, which started at 9 and went for three or four hours. The focus was always on the future: What should each product do next? What new things should be developed? Jobs used the meeting to enforce a sense of shared mission at Apple. This served to centralize control, which made the company seem as tightly integrated as a good Apple product, and prevented t.. | collaboration integration | Walter Isaacson | |
| 605a8b5 | Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 33a46b7 | and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c493524 | Posle vstrechi s Dzhobsom on soglasilsia. "Ia vybiraiu zhokeev, a zhokei vybiraiut loshadei, - skazal on Dzhobsu. - Ia stavliu na vas, rebiata, a vy uzh soobrazhaite"." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 19a5b4d | Lozung Bazza Laitera "Beskonechnost' - ne predel!" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e069ca9 | Reviziia produktsii nachalas' s uprazdneniia PowerPoint. "Terpet' ne mogu, kogda liudi pokazyvaiut slaidy vmesto togo, chtoby dumat', - ob'iasnial potom Dzhobs. - Oni rassmatrivaiut problemu s pomoshch'iu prezentatsii. Ia khotel, chtoby liudi vkliuchalis', chtoby obsuzhdali voprosy za stolom, a ne razgliadyvali kartinki. Esli chelovek znaet, o chem govorit, emu ne nuzhen PowerPoint"." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1e4ef9d | Eshche so vremen vykhoda pervogo reklamnogo bukleta, glasivshego: "Prostota predel'no slozhna", Dzhobs stremilsia k prostote, kotoraia zakliuchalas' v preodolenii slozhnostei, a ne v ikh izbeganii." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0089917 | Esli chto-to vas ne ustraivaet, nel'zia govorit': "a, ladno, ispravim potom", - ob'iasnial Dzhobs. - Tak postupaiut v drugikh kompaniiakh." | Walter Isaacson |