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| 9014e0d | 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. He could construct complex equations, but more important, he knew that math is the language nature uses to describe her wonders. So he could visualize how equa.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 357580b | member of the family recounted a few stories or read a poem. "His mind was never a captive of reality," Laurene said. "He possessed an epic sense of possibility. He looked at things from the standpoint of perfection." Mona Simpson, as befitting a novelist, had a finely crafted eulogy. "He was an intensely emotional man," she recalled. "Even ill, his taste, his discrimination, and his judgment held. He went through sixty-seven nurses before .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7c4f654 | have helped me make corrections or clear a few things up. And as always, I am most deeply indebted to my wife, Cathy, for her editing, suggestions, wise counsel, and so very much more. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f08fd46 | lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7a26836 | So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f2c4544 | Jobs's father had once taught him that a drive for perfection meant caring about the craftsmanship even of the parts unseen. Jobs applied that to the layout of the circuit board inside the Apple II. He rejected the initial design because the lines were not straight enough. This | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 88e8837 | It's a testament to Isaacson's skill as a biographer that readers can at last obtain the picture of Steve Jobs as a human being rather than a legend . . . anyone who's ever wondered how so very much about the technology landscape has changed so fundamentally in just thirty-five years, owes it to themselves to read this book." --TUAW.com "Walter Isaacson's book is an unflinching biography of a manifestly" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 08756be | much of my time trying to convince people to do | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fe62168 | In his excitement, Jobs began to take over the daily management of the Lisa project, which was being run by John Couch, the former HP engineer. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 345f84a | He held himself back for a while, but not for long. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b379b01 | Over dinner at a Georgian restaurant that specialized in shish kebab, Jobs continued his rant. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1166856 | We are evaluating what possible actions should be taken. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 762fc60 | I said, 'My God,' and hired him on the spot," Jobs recalled." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5d4bafb | Civically engaged, business oriented, technology obsessed, and socially skilled, Franklin was "our founding Yuppie," declares the New York Times columnist David Brooks. Franklin "would have felt right at home in the information revolution," Walter Isaacson writes in his biography of the statesman. "We can easily imagine having a beer with him after work, showing him how to use the latest digital device, sharing the business plan of a new ve.. | Fareed Zakaria | ||
| 13379b3 | A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the corr.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a256821 | Religion was at it's best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith, rather than living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's a great mystery." | faith religion | Walter Isaacson | |
| a939dfd | Los ordenadores de hoy son idiotas brillantes | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e8168ce | inevitable call from him saying, "This hotel sucks, let's go." But Ive also captured the scattershot brilliance at the core of Jobs's genius when he described his boss tossing out ideas at a meeting. "Sometimes they were dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b78058b | An Integrated Package As Jobs walked the floor of the Personal Computer Festival, he came to the realization that Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop had been right: Personal computers should come in a complete package. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a3e1e64 | 1. Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011. 2. Computer engineers--United States--Biography. 3. Businesspeople--United States--Biography. 4. Apple Computer, Inc.--History. I. Title. QA76.2.J63I83 2011 621.39092--dc23 [B] 2011045006 ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9 ISBN 978-1-4516-4854-6 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-4516-4855-3 (ebook) | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 48763fd | Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 38ade2f | Stanford commencement address; Andy Behrendt, "Apple Computer Mogul's Roots Tied to Green Bay," (Green Bay) Press Gazette, Dec. 4, 2005; Georgina Dickinson, "Dad Waits for Jobs to iPhone," New York Post and The Sun (London), Aug. 27, 2011; Mohannad Al-Haj Ali, "Steve Jobs Has Roots in Syria," Al Hayat, Jan. 16, 2011; Ulf Froitzheim, "Portrat Steve Jobs," Unternehmen, Nov. 26, 2007. Silicon Valley: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell... | Walter Isaacson | ||
| af8aa72 | 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 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 24bf967 | Motors in 1956. By the end of December 1980, Apple would be valued at $1.79 billion. Yes, billion. In the process it would make three | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bfbe572 | The job of art is to chase ugliness away." Bono" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b5c2f17 | 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 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b5b8bb7 | not one of them. He had been Jobs's soul mate in college, in India, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e0af25e | El viaje es la recompensa>>, rezaba. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5dca28c | The classic account of the Americans who rebuilt the world after the destruction of World War II. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ee9e8b3 | Digital Revolution The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's biographical story of the pioneers of the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works. The | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a8fbb5c | Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell, George Riley, Kristina Kiehl, Kathryn Smith. John Lauerman and Connie Guglielmo, "Jobs Liver Transplant," Bloomberg, Aug. 21, 2009. Return: Interviews with Steve Jobs, George Riley, Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Brian Roberts, Andy Hertzfeld. CHAPTER" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c961ee1 | Explorers Club, a group of fifteen or so students who met in the company cafeteria on | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1d31b52 | So starting in 1999 Apple began to produce application software for the Mac, with a focus | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e57b238 | As Osborne famously declared, "Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous." Jobs found that approach to be morally appalling, and he spent days making fun of Osborne. "This guy just doesn't get it," Jobs repeatedly railed as he wandered the Apple corridors. "He's not making art, he's making shit." | steve-jobs steve-jobs-biography steve-jobs-quotes | Walter Isaacson | |
| c606054 | Father raised his hands. "Gentlemen, gentlemen,please!" he interjected. "I would like to remind you there is freedom of practice in this country." Three apoplectic faces turned to him. "Yes! Prac --singular!" the wise men screa,ed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize their point." | Yann Martel | ||
| 6921756 | That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction was to wonder, half jokingly, whether he saw himself as the natural successor in that sequence. Because I assumed that he was still in the middle o.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 743b7fa | But Jobs's most poignant ruminations were about growing old and facing the future: Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. ...If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 906a7e2 | You did the impossible, because you didn't realize it was impossible." At" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 11d4600 | It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden. "He loved doing things right. He even care about the look of the parts you couldn't see." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f916a52 | Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fa3283b | I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod." Across" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 62241e8 | Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating. After" -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 74b05f5 | Lower Manhattan to tell me that whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c86dffc | At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-laced apple. He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and I found myself gathering string on the subject, just in case I eve.. | Walter Isaacson |