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| 90525d1 | Eddy Cue: It was the only event I took my wife and kids to because, as I told them, "In your lifetime, this might be the biggest thing ever." Because you could feel it. You just knew this was huge. The iPhone was the culmination of everything for Steve." | Adam Fisher | ||
| 9736e82 | Steve took people at their own merits. He was not overwhelmed or overly impressed by anybody for their star quality. It didn't matter if it was the publican in Windorah or a movie star in Los Angeles. He reacted to people as individuals. "I liked Eddie," he said, when I asked him how the shoot went. "He's a talented man, very professional, and easy to work with." But after spending a few days in Eddie Murphy's world, Steve pondered how the .. | Terri Irwin | ||
| 511b4de | They were still walking and talking when the stores opened at 10, and they went into Eddie Bauer. It had an entrance off the mall and another off the parking lot. Jobs decided that Apple stores should have only one entrance, which would make it easier to control the experience. And the Eddie Bauer store, they agreed, was too long and narrow. It was important that customers intuitively grasp the layout of a store as soon as they entered. The.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 13bb948 | DEBORAH "DEBI" COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA "ANDY" CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8c2f52a | DEBORAH "DEBI" COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA "ANDY" CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| aa49678 | that my client held the bag by the handles. Your Honor, this is the last straw - so to speak." Judge Parks put a hand up. He'd heard enough from me. He turned in his seat and directed his attention to Norm. "Mr. Folkes, I've examined this bag, and the straw with the actual items located in the bottom of the sack. I am not satisfied that Detective Granger could have seen a straw protruding from the top of this bag. On that basis, there is no.. | Steve Cavanagh | ||
| a482e30 | You have to ignore the wreckage and look beyond it for the monster. | Steve Cavanagh | ||
| b4f8459 | KOBUN CHINO. A St Zen master in California who became Jobs's spiritual teacher. LEE CLOW. Advertising wizard who created Apple's "1984" ad and worked with Jobs for three decades. DEBORAH "DEBI" COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs's wingman in deal.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4102071 | graphics for the Mac intosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's 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 entrepreneurial role model for Jobs. BILL CAMPBELL. Apple marketing chief during Jobs's first stint at Apple and board member and confidant after Jobs's return in 1997. EDWIN CATMULL. A co.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f8c4534 | Whatever good things you've heard about me probably aren't true. Whatever bad things you've heard are probably just the tip of the iceberg," I said." | Steve Cavanagh | ||
| 1a0c577 | who became Jobs's spiritual teacher. LEE CLOW. Advertising wizard who created Apple's "1984" ad and worked with Jobs for three decades. DEBORAH "DEBI" COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY CUE. Chief of Internet services at Apple," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 474d42c | The Reeve collects the rents and taxes which those who dwell on the manor must pay to my uncle regularly for their housing and farms -- and for other privileges such as the right to collect firewood in the forest. | Richard Platt | ||
| d4ca4c7 | R. C. Hoiles, | Richard Reeves | ||
| 2676b0f | If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind... | Richard V. Reeves | ||
| e0cb3aa | I sometimes wonder why I have spent more than fifty years in New York, when it was the West, and especially the Southwest, which so enthralled me. I now have many ties in New York--to my patients, my students, my friends, and my analyst--but I have never felt it move me the way California did. I suspect my nostalgia may be not only for the place itself but for youth, and a very different time, and being in love, and being able to say, "The .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b1674cc | And at this point, self-stimulation of various sorts began: mental games, counting, fantasies, and, sooner or later, visual hallucinations--usually a "march" of hallucinations from simple" | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 30394c5 | in Korsakov's, or dementia, or other such catastrophes, however great the organic damage and Humean dissolution, there remains the undiminished possibility of reintegration by art, by communion, by touching the human spirit: and this can be preserved in what seems at first a hopeless state of neurological devastation. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 77f4af6 | It takes a special energy, over and above one's creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled. It is a gamble as all creative projects must be, for the new direction may not turn out to be productive at all. | creativity science | Oliver Sacks | |
| e2142ea | the personal, and becomes entirely abstract and computational. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b2b4172 | Of course, the brain is a machine and a computer--everything in classical neurology is correct. But our mental processes, which constitute our being and life, are not just abstract and mechanical, but personal, as well--and, as such, involve not just classifying and categorising, but continual judging and feeling also. If this is missing, we become computer-like, as Dr P. was. And, by the same token, if we delete feeling and judging, the pe.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c029799 | My father, who lived to ninety-four, often said that the eighties had been one of the most enjoyable decades of his life. He felt, as I begin to feel, not a shrinking but an enlargement of mental life and perspective. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 7943f6e | Your brain is you in a way in which your heart isn't. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 0b19b28 | there is no necessary dilution of reality in representation; quite the opposite, if the representation has power. Reality is conferred, re-conferred, by every original representation. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9d34e49 | After a while the scene started to fade, and I became dimly conscious, once more, that I was in London, stoned, hallucinating Agincourt on the sleeve of my dressing gown. It | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 27a1f88 | Dangerous wellness, morbid brilliance, a deceptive euphoria with abysses beneath - THIS is the trap promised and threatened by nature - in the form of some intoxicating disorder, or by ourselves in the form of some excitant addiction. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| d6ab5c9 | Curiosity. It was Oliver Sacks who first made me reflect on curiosity as a form of compassion. An ingenious and creative neurologist now well-known for his "clinical tales," he begins his work as diagnostician and healer with the implicit question 'What is it like to be you?" | conversation curiosity empathy healing marilyn-chandler-mcentyre | Marilyn Chandler McEntyre | |
| f18bd38 | Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions. T | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 204df10 | My father, who lived to ninety-four, often said that the eighties had been one of the most enjoyable decades of his life. He felt, as I begin to feel, not a shrinking but an enlargement of mental life and perspective. One has had a long experience of life, not only one's own life, but others' too. One has seen triumphs and tragedies, booms and busts, revolutions and wars, great achievements and deep ambiguities. One has seen grand theories .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 60cc7e4 | You know," he said, "when you were little and tired like this, I'd throw you over my shoulder and carry you home like a sack of rice. Sometimes I wish you were still that little. I wish I could still do that." "Da-ad. That is so embarrassing," is what she said. But sometimes she wished it, too. Sometimes she wished it with all her heart." | Kevin Henkes | ||
| a0bda89 | There is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. --OLIVER SACKS | Maia Szalavitz | ||
| 3f30cb5 | they do not 'convert' numbers into music, but actually feel them, in themselves, as 'forms', as 'tones', like the multitudinous forms that compose nature itself. They are not calculators, and their numeracy is 'iconic'. They summon up, they dwell among, strange scenes of numbers; they wander freely in great landscapes of numbers; they create, dramaturgically, a whole world made of numbers. They have, I believe, a most singular imagination -.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| d47df6c | There was a great gush of pus, and a loud bellow, followed by silence: | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 43b9aa4 | As he wrote, if we could "rerun" evolution, it would no doubt turn out completely differently every time." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| f647ca3 | There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate--the genetic and neural fate--of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b5aa885 | Sign, I was now convinced, was a fundamental language of the brain. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 120a0b2 | It is certain that we are not "given" reality, but have to construct it for ourselves, in our own way, and that in doing so we are conditioned by the cultures and worlds we live in. It is natural that our language should embody our world view--the way in which we perceive and construct reality. But" | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 156c9c5 | In the mid-1950s, when I was in medical school, there seemed to be an unbridgeable gap between our neurophysiology and the actualities of how patients experienced neurological disorders. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 51d3384 | While Crick (and his co-workers) cracked the genetic code--a set of instructions, in general terms, for building a body--Edelman realized early that the genetic code could not specify or control the fate of every single cell in the body, that cellular development, especially in the nervous system, was subject to all sorts of contingencies--nerve cells could die, could migrate (Edelman spoke of such migrants as "gypsies"), could connect up w.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c19109c | Experience and experiment are crucially important here--neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection. The | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 2a66995 | These were "fossil behaviors," Darwinian vestiges of earlier times brought out of physiological limbo by the stimulation of primitive brain-stem systems, damaged and sensitized by the encephalitis in the first place, and now "awakened" by L-dopa.1 I" | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c519472 | The players are connected. Each player, interpreting the music individually, constantly modulates and is modulated by the others. There is no final or "master" interpretation; the music is collectively created, and every performance is unique. This is Edelman's picture of the brain, as an orchestra, an ensemble, but without a conductor, an orchestra which makes its own music. --" | Oliver Sacks | ||
| ed7c57a | Similar considerations arise with regard to recovery and rehabilitation after strokes and other injuries. There are no rules; there is no prescribed path of recovery; every patient must discover or create his own motor and perceptual patterns, his own solutions to the challenges that face him; and it is the function of a sensitive therapist to help him in this. And | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9ee2672 | And in its broadest sense, neural Darwinism implies that we are destined, whether we wish it or not, to a life of particularity and self-development, to make our own individual paths through life. -- | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b2b77b7 | Our tests, our approaches...are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show us powers; they only show us puzzles and schemata, when we need to see music, narrative, play, a being conducting itself spontaneously in its own natural way. | science | Oliver Sacks |