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| b2e70c2 | La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo>>. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2c9df2a | The musician Bono, who later became a friend of Jobs, often discussed with him why those immersed in the rock-drugs-rebel counterculture of the Bay Area ended up helping to create the personal computer industry. "The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Ja.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d9b5202 | Art Levinson, who was on Apple's board, was chairing the board meeting of his own company, Genentech, when his cell phone rang and Jobs's name appeared on the screen. As soon as there was a break, Levinson called him back and heard the news of the tumor. He had a background in cancer biology, and his firm made cancer treatment drugs, so he became an advisor. So did Andy Grove of Intel, who had fought and beaten prostate cancer. Jobs called .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b9adf2b | pleaded every day" with Jobs and found it "enormously frustrating that I just couldn't connect with him." The fights almost ruined their friendship. "That's not how cancer works," Levinson insisted when Jobs discussed his diet treatments. "You cannot solve this without surgery and blasting it with toxic chemicals." Even Dr. Dean Ornish, a pioneer in alternative and nutritional methods of treating diseases, took a long walk with Jobs and ins.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7afc012 | Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2b1b96c | Loyalty to a party, Einstein felt, meant surrendering some independence of thought. Such conformity confounded him. "How an intelligent man can subscribe to a party I find a complete mystery," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 40c3c83 | 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. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5cc14af | Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in other ways is not. That's the power of intuition and experiential wisdom. Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacit.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5b4a071 | Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end u.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c5b687e | That was back when state governments valued education and realized the economic and social value of making it affordable. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| db11bf5 | There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ede107f | This is a book about the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. You might even add a seventh, retail stores, which Jobs did not quite revolutionize but did reimagine. In addition, he opened the way for a new market for digital c.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6b3291d | Shakespeare's Henry V--the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king--begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 62676f6 | He also flowered intellectually during his last two years in high school and found himself at the intersection, as he had begun to see it, of those who were geekily immersed in electronics and those who were into literature and creative endeavors. "I started to listen to music a whole lot, and I started to read more outside of just science and technology--Shakespeare, Plato. I loved King Lear." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 35b9663 | a harbinger of a third wave of computing, one that blurred the line between augmented human intelligence and artificial intelligence. "The first generation of computers were machines that counted and tabulated," Rometty says, harking back to IBM's roots in Herman Hollerith's punch-card tabulators used for the 1890 census. "The second generation involved programmable machines that used the von Neumann architecture. You had to tell them what .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2c54631 | 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, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 57d4fc9 | Henry V--the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4e361e5 | Jobs asked some questions about education, and Gates sketched out his vision of what schools in the future would be like, with students watching lectures and video lessons on their own while using the classroom time for discussions and problem solving. They agreed that computers had, so far, made surprisingly little impact on schools--far less than on other realms of society such as media and medicine and law. For that to change, Gates said.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4c42c19 | Thirty years after Apple went public, he reflected on what it was like to come into money suddenly: I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. And I learned at Atari that I could be an okay engineer, so I always knew I could get by. I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life even when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wo.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f86689d | We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5f22cf2 | He has a second-rate mind but a first-rate intuition about people," Kissinger once said of Rockefeller. "I have a first-rate mind but a third-rate intuition about people." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d2ae120 | The Industrial Revolution was based on two grand concepts that were profound in their simplicity. Innovators came up with ways to simplify endeavors by breaking them into easy, small tasks that could be accomplished on assembly lines. Then, beginning in the textile industry, inventors found ways to mechanize steps so that they could be performed by machines, many of them powered by steam engines. Babbage, building on ideas from Pascal and L.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c71b4d2 | Einstein had a mild form of echolalia, causing him to repeat phrases to himself, two or three times, especially if they amused him. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3dc203e | There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right. | heritage perspective | Walter Isaacson | |
| ef94699 | Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 05d58a3 | 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 .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4451804 | There was never a good knife made of bad steel | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 181f384 | I learned electronics as a kid by messing around with old radios that were easy to tamper with because they were designed to be fixed. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 89cc518 | David Brooks, "Our Founding Yuppie," Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word "meritocracy" is an argument-starter, and I have employed it sparingly in this book. It is often used loosely to denote a vision of social mobility based on merit and diligence, like Franklin's. The word was coined by British social thinker Michael Young (later to become, somewhat ironically, Lord Young of Darlington) in his 1958 book The Rise of the Meritocra.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4318e89 | Those who met with greater economic success in life were responsible to help those in genuine need; but those who from lack of virtue failed to pull their own weight could expect no help from society. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 07c68ea | Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; and that when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fde82d3 | Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life."27" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d45b61f | Hubble then made an even more amazing discovery. By measuring the red shift of the stars' spectra (which is the light wave counterpart to the Doppler effect for sound waves), he realized that the galaxies were moving away from us. There were at least two possible explanations for the fact that distant stars in all directions seemed to be flying away from us: (1) because we are the center of the universe, something that since the time of Cop.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6002310 | Vision without execution is hallucination. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 881e78a | The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 865dc11 | He told us to go back to the roots of the original 1984 Macintosh, an all-in-one consumer appliance," recalled Schiller. "That meant design and engineering had to work together." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5fca45c | La sencillez es la maxima sofisticacion>>. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 325e174 | Even though they were not fervent about their faith, Jobs's parents wanted him to have a religious upbringing, so they took him to the Lutheran church most Sundays. That came to an end when he was thirteen. In July 1968 Life magazine published a shocking cover showing a pair of starving children in Biafra. Jobs took it to Sunday school and confronted the church's pastor. "If I raise my finger, will God know which one I'm going to raise even.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 87f31e4 | I'm not sure," Atkinson replied. "Maybe six months." It was a wildly optimistic assessment, but also a motivating one." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 818b8d9 | Jobs had not tempered his way of dealing with employees. "He applied charm or public humiliation in a way that in most cases proved to be pretty effective," Tribble recalled. But sometimes it wasn't. One engineer, David Paulsen, put in ninety-hour weeks for the first ten months at NeXT. He quit when "Steve walked in one Friday afternoon and told us how unimpressed he was with what we were doing." When Business Week asked him why he treated .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3363c84 | That spring Larry Ellison saw Amelio at a party and introduced him to the technology journalist Gina Smith, who asked how Apple was doing. "You know, Gina, Apple is like a ship," Amelio answered. "That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction." Smith looked perplexed and asked, "Yeah, but what about the hole?" From then on, Ellison and Jobs joked about the parab.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d5af3fe | summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9031a67 | As Franklin recounted: He composed it in these words, "John Thompson, hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money," with a figure of a hat subjoined. But he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to thought the word "Hatter" tautologous, because followed by the words "makes hats," which showed he was a hatter. It was struck out. The next observed that the word "makes" might as well be omitted.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 576768e | Eddy Cue, who was in charge of the store, predicted that Apple would sell a million songs in six months. Instead the iTunes Store sold a million songs in six days. | Walter Isaacson |