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5a174f1 You've got to make a new set of friends and interact with a new set of prejudices every time. Walter Isaacson
a79ba3a We need to be the company that manages your relationship with the cloud--streams your music and videos from the cloud, stores your pictures and information, and maybe even your medical data. Walter Isaacson
85cdf1f disease. 2 The firm changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and Walter Isaacson
83581a7 2. In his kitchen: "Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought." 3." Walter Isaacson
f91069c potential customers, but also at Apple's own employees: "We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. That was the genesis of that campaign." Clow and his team tried a variety of approaches that praised the "crazy ones" who "think different." They did" Walter Isaacson
f59aaf9 3. At Stanford, 1982: "How many of you are virgins? How many of you have taken" Walter Isaacson
ef867e5 7. At NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts. 8. Walter Isaacson
34df961 been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison's conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates's philanthropic impulses nor the competitive urge to see how high Walter Isaacson
70952ed Kathryn Smith: 16 DPA/Landov: 21 Courtesy of Daniel Kottke: 56 Mark Richards: 71, 348 Ted Thai/Polaris: 102 Walter Isaacson
f68fd33 For his thirtieth and fortieth birthdays, Jobs had celebrated with the stars of Silicon Valley and other assorted celebrities. But when he turned fifty in 2005, after coming back from his cancer surgery, the surprise party that his wife arranged featured mainly his closest friends and professional colleagues. It was at the comfortable San Francisco home of some friends, and the great chef Alice Waters prepared salmon from Scotland Walter Isaacson
b093501 couscous and a variety of garden-raised vegetables. "It was beautifully warm and intimate, with everyone and the kids all able to sit in one room," Waters recalled. The" Walter Isaacson
99a68bd south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a "repo man," picking the locks of cars whose" Walter Isaacson
faf1b5e war ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor Walter Isaacson
b25c3f5 Jersey, Walter Isaacson
e60ac04 innovacion requiere contar con tres cosas como minimo: una gran idea, el talento tecnico para llevarla a cabo y la experiencia empresarial (ademas de la sangre fria para cerrar tratos) para convertirla en un exito. Walter Isaacson
0908939 up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became Walter Isaacson
859ee6c They all knew they were expected to be deferential to Jobs while also pushing back on his ideas and being willing to argue--a tricky balance to maintain, but each did it well. "I realized very early that if you didn't voice your opinion, he would mow you down," said Cook. "He takes contrary positions to create more discussion, because it may lead to a better result. So if you don't feel comfortable disagreeing, then you'll never survive." Walter Isaacson
1d8b861 Jobs quickly became bored with college. He liked being at Reed, just not taking the required classes. Walter Isaacson
7497c33 There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after. Walter Isaacson
06ce202 Indeed, most of their letters mixed romantic effusions with scientific enthusiasms, often with an emphasis on the latter. Walter Isaacson
95e2420 His theory indicated that the universe would have to be either expanding or contracting, not staying static. According to his field equations, a static universe was impossible because the gravitational forces would pull all the matter together. Walter Isaacson
9bce565 you do this to me? And he's impossible to deal with." Jobs clung" Walter Isaacson
cb02856 needed to be uncomplicated enough that a stoned freshman Walter Isaacson
d96d2aa They developed not merely modest product advances based on focus groups, but whole new devices and services that consumers did not yet know they needed. Walter Isaacson
e084bad When he was turning thirty, Jobs Walter Isaacson
dc65613 Two events which, viewed from a system of coordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be looked upon as simultaneous events when envisaged from a system which is in motion relative to that system. Walter Isaacson
09031fc los Laboratorios Bell demostraron que puede generarse innovacion de forma continuada cuando se junta a personas con talentos diversos, preferiblemente en espacios que propicien la proximidad fisica y permitan mantener reuniones frecuentes Walter Isaacson
79a5cb9 Por mucho enfasis que debamos poner en el liderazgo, la organizacion y el trabajo en equipo, el individuo sigue siendo determinante, de una importancia suprema. Las ideas y los conceptos creativos nacen en la mente de una sola persona>>. Walter Isaacson
d794f7f If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will, Walter Isaacson
fb49cd7 Moves In: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell, Mona Simpson, Andy Hertzfeld. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, "Driving Jane," Harvard Advocate, Spring" -- Walter Isaacson
7776d9e stereo system with MartinLogan speakers Walter Isaacson
38fb41a Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. Walter Isaacson
5e72d4c The Kleinrock controversy is interesting because it shows that most of the Internet's creators preferred--to use the metaphor of the Internet itself--a system of fully distributed credit. They instinctively isolated and routed around any node that tried to claim more significance than the others. The Internet was born of an ethos of creative collaboration and distributed decision making, and its founders liked to protect that heritage. It b.. Walter Isaacson
9c7e350 We'd just taken Pixar public, and I was happy being CEO there. I never knew of anyone who served as CEO of two public companies, even temporarily, and I wasn't even sure it was legal. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I was enjoying spending more time with my family. I was torn. I knew Apple was a mess, so I wondered: Do I want to give up this nice lifestyle that I have? What are all the Pixar shareholders going to think? I talked to peopl.. Walter Isaacson
e91cb00 El dia en que presento el Macintosh, un periodista de Popular Science le pregunto a Jobs que tipo de investigacion de mercados habia llevado a cabo. A lo cual Jobs respondio, burlon: <>. Walter Isaacson
22531e6 Isaacson's biography can be read in several ways. It is on the one hand a history of the most exciting time in the age of computers, when the machines first became personal and later, fashionable accessories. It is also a textbook study of the rise and fall and rise of Apple and the brutal clashes that destroyed friendships and careers. And it is a gadget lover's dream, with fabulous, inside accounts of how the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and i.. Walter Isaacson
bf749f5 Fred Terman, un antiguo estudiante de doctorado de Vannevar Bush en el MIT que despues seria decano de ingenieria de la Universidad de Stanford, Walter Isaacson
4b42b79 I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics," he said. "Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do." It was as if he were suggesting themes for his biography (and in this instance, at least, the theme turned out to be valid). The creativ.. Walter Isaacson
1778a23 In a colorful part of the paper, he presented a fictional scenario in which he posed questions to the machine. He imagined the machine's activity: "Over the week-end it retrieved over 10,000 documents, scanned them all for sections rich in relevant material, analyzed all the rich sections into statements in a high-order predicate calculus, and entered the statements into the data base." Walter Isaacson
080df76 Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page." Walter Isaacson
a13fcde Steve Jobs's attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them away for free, and he was a Zen devotee who made a pilgrimage to India and then decided that his calling was to create a business. And yet somehow these attitudes seemed to weave together rather than conflict. Walter Isaacson
a524830 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
fbeb7bb intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured Walter Isaacson
61e4465 with MartinLogan speakers and a hundred CDs. The software team was visible from the lobby in a fishbowl-like Walter Isaacson