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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fde2373 | Steve Jobs was famously stubborn and | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f6661c4 | The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost," Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that the tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it's not that simple. At the company he founded after being ousted from Apple, Jobs was able to indulge all of his instincts, both good and bad. He was unbound. The result was a series of spectacular products that were dazzling market flops. This wa.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 52fafce | decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advance. "It's your book," he said. "I won't even read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn't know it, was hit by another round of cancer complications. He stopped returning my calls, and I put the project aside for a while." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 099bec6 | she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping it a secret, she explained. I decided | Walter Isaacson | ||
| faf93e0 | La conciencia publica es un componente importante de la innovacion. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ef76d02 | Like many aspects of the digital age, this idea that innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humanities and sciences interact. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 76bbbe8 | What would have happened if Franklin had, in fact, received a formal academic education and gone to Harvard? Some historians such as Arthur Tourtellot argue that he would have been stripped of his "spontaneity," "intuitive" literary style, "zest," "freshness," and the "unclutteredness" of his mind. And indeed, Harvard has been known to" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 052365d | Outside of Search, Google's products--Android, Google Docs--are shit. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2376bec | When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 56f0c53 | but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 32ded28 | and Woody, and he loved the fact that Ive and John Lasseter shared the talent to connect art with technology in a playful way. Pixar was a haven where Jobs could escape the intensity in Cupertino. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ddba933 | You've got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on! | Yann Martel | ||
| 01d46b7 | Many people who celebrate the arts and the humanities, who applaud vigorously the tributes to their importance in our schools, will proclaim without shame (and sometimes even joke) that they don't understand math or physics. They extoll the virtues of learning Latin, but they are clueless about how to write an algorithm or tell BASIC from C++, Python from Pascal. They consider people who don't know Hamlet from Macbeth to be Philistines, yet.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3d84f40 | que se convertiria en otro ejemplo de como la financiacion publica de la investigacion especulativa se amortiza a la larga cientos de veces en aplicaciones practicas. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| acb4d4a | Our selectivity in who to care about makes a difference. About twenty years ago, Walter Isaacson expressed his frustration over the American public's focus on the crisis in Somalia and relative disregard of the (objectively greater) tragedy in the Sudan, when he plaintively asked: "Will the world end up rescuing Somalia while ignoring the Sudan mainly because the former proves more photogenic?" Before" | Paul Bloom | ||
| cd2f0f2 | But when he and Zuse proposed it to the German Army in 1942, the commanders said they were confident that they would win the war before the two years it would take to build such a machine. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1d18d4b | When he was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on the cover of Time, and soon thereafter he began offering me his ideas for a series we were doing on the most influential people of the century. He had launched his "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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3c4fca9 | All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace>>.11 Empezaba asi: Me gusta pensar (!y cuanto antes, mejor!) en un prado cibernetico donde mamiferos y ordenadores vivan juntos en mutua armonia programada como el agua pura tocando el cielo despejado. STEWART B | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0f18641 | 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." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 61d1374 | Bueno, Steve, me parece que hay mas de una forma de verlo. Yo diria mas bien que es como si ambos tuviesemos un vecino rico llamado Xerox y, cuando yo me cole en su casa para robar el televisor, descubri que ya te lo habias llevado tu>>. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8647ae1 | Las matematicas tienen algo en comun con la poesia --dijo tiempo despues--. Estan formadas por relaciones verdaderas, pasos verdaderos, deducciones verdaderas, y eso hace que sean hermosas.>> | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 83d2894 | delight, Akers replied, "How would you like to help us?" Within a few weeks Jobs showed up at IBM's Armonk," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1b63ece | 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 of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b69b0ce | chores that slow down the software development process," said Andrew Heller, the general manager of IBM's workstation unit, who was so impressed by Jobs that he named his newborn son Steve. The negotiations lasted into 1988, with Jobs becoming prickly over tiny details. He would stalk out of meetings over disagreements about colors or design, only to be calmed down by Tribble or Lewin. He didn't seem to know which frightened him more, IBM o.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d211cf1 | endeavors--hardware, software, and animated content--were losing money. "I'd get these plans, and in the end I kept having to put in more money," he recalled. He would rail, but then write the check. Having been ousted" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8f7c65a | It's also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| aae9659 | Leibniz had little engineering skill and did not surround himself with those who did. So, like many great theorists who lacked practical collaborators, he was unable to produce reliably working versions of his device. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 87d5d6d | were superlatives. The product was "incredible," he said, "the best thing we could have imagined." He praised the beauty of even the parts unseen. Balancing on his fingertips the foot-square circuit board that would be nestled in the foot-cube box, he enthused, "I hope you get a chance to look at this a little later. It's the most beautiful printed circuit board I've ever seen in my life." He then showed how the computer could play speeches.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| eeca5f3 | demonstration to poke fun at himself. "A word that's sometimes used to describe me is 'mercurial,' " he said, then paused. The audience laughed knowingly, especially those in the front rows, which were filled with NeXT employees and former members of the Macintosh team. Then he pulled up the word in the computer's dictionary and read the first definition: "Of or relating to, or born under the planet Mercury." Scrolling down, he said, "I thi.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 88dce16 | A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| aac080b | Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground. Instead of having a single cause, the great advances of 1937 came from a combination of capabilities, ideas, and needs that coincided in multiple places. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 346deee | order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9831459 | caso de John Atanasoff, el olvidado inventor de Iowa, la concepcion de la idea es solo el primer paso. Lo que importa realmente es la ejecucion. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| adce41c | The roots of the personal computer can be found in the Free Speech Movement that arose at Berkeley in 1964 and in the Whole Earth Catalog, which did the marketing for the do-it-yourself ideals behind the personal computer movement. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2d54d1f | The thing that Von Neumann had, which I've noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that's important. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 975dbe4 | The Pepsi Generation campaign, he said, sold not a product but a lifestyle and an optimistic outlook. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c3b9029 | I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| debf7a4 | Long live impudence! | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a77b285 | When Jobs saw the corporate fitness center, he was astonished that executives had an area, with its own whirlpool, separate from that of the regular employees. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5ab0940 | Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?' | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a625a11 | authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2e64f32 | Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a00a0ad | Hamdanid | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 20ddb53 | She attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville, where the tuition was $76 per year. (In 2013 it was approximately $14,000 per year for in-state residents, a twelve-fold increase after adjusting for inflation.) | Walter Isaacson |