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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 81c7bea | visionario paso a ser un alucinado, lo que lo convirtio en un caso practico de mal liderazgo. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 611f8a3 | people who expect deference because they have a PhD and don't want to deal with ordinary people tend to be annoying. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5740493 | Like most artist-craftsmen of his era, he did not sign his work. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cc9a8b4 | to get this whole thing | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 03295da | An even more astonishing revelation occurred when Jandali was describing the previous restaurants that he had run. There had been some nice ones, he insisted, fancier than the Sacramento joint they were then sitting in. He told her, somewhat emotionally, that he wished she could have seen him when he was managing a Mediterranean restaurant north of San Jose. "That was a wonderful place," he said. "All of the successful technology people use.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cf3fd26 | Instead it was an undergraduate named Charley Kline, under the eye of Crocker and Cerf, who put on a telephone headset to coordinate with a researcher at SRI while typing in a login sequence that he hoped would allow his terminal at UCLA to connect through the network to the computer 354 miles away in Palo Alto. He typed in "L." The guy at SRI told him that it had been received. Then he typed in "O." That, too, was confirmed. When he typed .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 931950e | It was a very big moment that's burned into my mind. When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that. I will never forget that moment." This discovery, he later told friends, along with the fact that he was adopted, made him feel apart--detached and separate--from both his family and the world." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e1dae1e | bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's | Walter Isaacson | ||
| df004fc | ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 49fae59 | ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cf968e0 | After the speech Jobs hung around on the edge of the stage chatting with students. He watched Powell leave, then come back and stand at the edge of the crowd, then leave again. He bolted out after her, brushing past the dean, who was trying to grab him for a conversation. After catching up with her in the parking lot, he said, "Excuse me, wasn't there something about a raffle you won, that I'm supposed to take you to dinner?" She laughed. ".. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8c1ba67 | the biggest way to deliver an effect to the world is not by writing a paper but by taking technology you believe in and making something of it. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fb150b6 | Maybe it's time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently," Business Week wrote in a story headlined "Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." Apple's former chief financial officer, Joseph Graziano, was quoted as saying, "Apple's problem is it still believes the way to grow is serving caviar in a world that seems pretty content with cheese and crackers." And the retail consultant David Goldstein declared, "I give them two y.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8bab600 | A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography . . . a remarkably | Walter Isaacson | ||
| dc7f6ad | The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best." --Foreign" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4c1d372 | Being "disputatious," he concluded, was "a very bad habit" because contradicting people produced "disgusts and perhaps enmities." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f38a5d3 | he "dropped my abrupt contradiction" style of argument and "put on the humbler enquirer" of the Socratic method." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bcbd847 | he did criticize his son for his weak and un-persuasive writing style. In reaction, the precocious young teen devised for himself a self-improvement course | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c50b3c2 | So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fc8853a | Using Hollerith's tabulators, the 1890 census was completed in one year rather than eight. It was the first major use of electrical circuits to process information, and the company that Hollerith founded became in 1924, after a series of mergers and acquisitions, the International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5c302c5 | was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 49fd396 | was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 955c326 | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa. They | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e9d111f | Be Here Now, a guide to meditation and the wonders of psychedelic drugs by Baba Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b366460 | Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe, which extolled the personal and planetary benefits of vegetarianism. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5f11199 | Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret, an early twentieth-century German-born nutrition fanatic. He | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b2cfc22 | He turned out to be good in geometry, but he never mastered the use of equations or the rudimentary algebra that existed at the time. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fb33bba | When he went to PARC for his formal interview, Kay was asked what he hoped his great achievement there would be. "A personal computer," he answered. Asked what that was, he picked up a notebook-size portfolio, flipped open its cover, and said, "This will be a flat-panel display. There'll be a keyboard here on the bottom, and enough power to store your mail, files, music, artwork, and books. All in a package about this size and weighing a co.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 586e2bd | For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30% or so. The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30% better than your average one. What I saw with Woz was somebody who was fifty times better than the average engineer. He could have meetings in his head. The Mac team was an attempt to build a whole team like that, A players. People said they wouldn't get along, they'd hate working with each other. But I realized.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b64bb70 | your book," he said. "I won't even read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6f6e9db | Una de sus maximas clave relativas a la inversion era apostar por la gente mas que por la idea. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 41ff682 | Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, and it became deeply ingrained in his personality. "Steve is very much Zen," said Kottke. "It was a deep influence. You see it in his whole approach of stark, minimalist aesthetics, intense" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 98a581e | Tengo semejante fe en el ser humano que creo que hablar con las personas es mucho mas importante que esforzarse en averiguar que es lo que quieren hacer>>, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f98bd92 | States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2eae5bf | What is it you don't understand about the universe?" Jobs replied, "I don't understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e398bb0 | se describe al director ejecutivo ideal como una persona expansiva, reflexiva y de accion. Grove se dio cuenta de que, en lugar de estar encarnados en un solo individuo, esos rasgos podian darse en un equipo directivo. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f7aedbb | El asunto es que la gente no se vea obligada a recorrer una cadena de mando --indico uno de los tecnicos de Intel, Ted Hoff--. Si uno necesita hablar con un gerente en concreto, va y habla con el.>> | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1f2036b | El exito trae complacencia. La complacencia trae fracaso. Solo sobrevive el paranoico>>. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 620961b | declined to keep licensing it out. "If the platform goes closed, it is over," Kahng said. "Total destruction. Closed is the kiss of death." Jobs disagreed. He telephoned Ed Woolard to say he was getting Apple out of the licensing business. The board acquiesced, and in September he reached a deal to pay Power Computing $100 million to relinquish its license and give Apple access to its database of customers. He soon terminated the licenses o.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5db1ea1 | Form follows emotion," a play on the familiar maxim that form follows function." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c46115f | Apple. One day he was walking the halls and ran into a young Wharton School graduate who had been Amelio's assistant and who said he was wrapping up his work. "Well, good, because I need someone to do grunt work," Jobs told him. His new role was to take notes as Jobs met with the dozens of product teams at Apple, asked" -- | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 022fc2a | Another key to fielding a great team is pairing visionaries, who can generate ideas, with operating managers, who can execute them. Visions without execution are hallucinations.31 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 43dc65d | Jobs, who could identify with each of those sentiments, wrote some of the lines himself, including "They push the human race forward." By the time of the Boston Macworld in early August, they had produced a rough version. They agreed it was not ready, but Jobs used the concepts, and the "think different" phrase, in his keynote speech there. "There's a germ of a brilliant idea there," he said at the time. "Apple is about people who think out.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7e8b3e4 | As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make"." | inspiration leadership | Walter Isaacson |