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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9637293 | When you have feelings," he said, "like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d0d6933 | We talked a lot about focus. And choosing people. How to know who to trust, and how to build a team of lieutenants he can count on. I described the blocking and tackling he would have to do to keep the company from getting flabby or being larded with B players. The main thing I stressed was focus. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d9e33b1 | Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him--the user interface for the original Macintosh, the design of the iPod and iPhone, getting music companies into the iTunes Store--he was relentless. But if he did not want to deal with something--a legal annoyance, a business issue, his cancer diagnosis, a family tug--he w.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9d5f08a | The nasty edge to his personality was not necessary. It hindered him more than it helped him. But it did, at times, serve a purpose. Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Dozens of the colleagues whom Jobs most abused ended their litany of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible. And he created a corporation crammed wit.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 92f7de4 | What Einstein appreciated in Mozart and Bach was the clear architectural structure that made their music seem "deterministic" and, like his own favorite scientific theories, plucked from the universe rather than composed. "Beethoven created his music," Einstein once said, but "Mozart's music is so pure it seems to have been ever-present in the universe." He contrasted Beethoven with Bach: "I feel uncomfortable listening to Beethoven. I thin.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 892aaa2 | plow deep. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 952c4be | The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e77519a | stories on the company's woes. "NeXT is incompatible with other computers at a time when the industry is moving toward interchangeable systems," Bart Ziegler of Associated Press reported. "Because relatively little software exists to run on NeXT," | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0d48abb | Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so--Ginevra de' Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example--were never delivered to clients. Leonardo clung to his favorite works, carried them with him when he moved, and returned to them when he had new ideas. He certainly did that with the Saint Jerome, and he may have planned to do the same with the Adoration of the Magi, which he entrusted to Ginevra's brother for safekeeping but ne.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c1c1eb3 | polymaths | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e3a34c7 | MAIN CHARACTERS Cesare Borgia (c. 1475-1507). Italian warrior, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, subject of Machiavelli's The Prince, Leonardo employer. Donato Bramante (1444-1514). Architect, friend of Leonardo in Milan, worked on Milan Cathedral, Pavia Cathedral, and St. Peter's in the Vatican. Caterina Lippi (c. 1436-1493). Orphaned peasant girl from near Vinci, mother of Leonardo; later married Antonio di Piero del Vaccha, known as.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2c12b8b | It's one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings. I shouldn't have. They had done so much to make sure I could go there, but I just didn't want them around. I didn't want anyone to know I had parents. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6bdc175 | No, that's not right," Ferris replied. "The lines should be voluptuous, like a Ferrari." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9affca9 | Tim Cook When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and produced the "Think Different" ads and the iMac in his first year, it confirmed what most people already knew: that he could be creative and a visionary. He had shown that during his first round at Apple. What was less clear was whether he could run a company. He had definitely not shown that during his first round." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6f59fd6 | Jobs flew down to have lunch with Eisner, who was stunned at his audacity. They had a three-picture deal, and Pixar had made only one. Each side had its own nuclear weapons. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3a489fb | Apple went public the morning of December 12, 1980. By then the bankers had priced the stock at $ 22 a share. It went to $ 29 the first day. Jobs had come into the Hambrecht & Quist office just in time to watch the opening trades. At age twenty-five, he was now worth $ 256 million. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a742e62 | What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4774980 | One day in the fall of 2010 he was wistfully going through a box of old snapshots with me, and paused over one that showed him visiting Lisa when she was young. "I probably didn't go over there enough," he said. Since he had not spoken to her all that year, I asked if he might want to reach out to her with a call or email. He looked at me blankly for a moment, then went back to riffling through other old photographs." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c6629bf | Tin Toy went on to win the 1988 Academy Award for animated short films, the first computer-generated film to do so. To celebrate, Jobs took Lasseter and his team to Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 40f66b3 | It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he imagined. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7e1f156 | God is "all wise, all good, all powerful," he posited. Therefore, everything that exists or happens is with his consent. "What He consents to must be good, because He is good; therefore evil doth not exist." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2ca4858 | God is "all wise, all good, all powerful," he posited. Therefore, everything that exists or happens is with his consent. "What He consents to must be good, because He is good; therefore evil doth not exist." Furthermore, happiness existed only as a contrast to unhappiness, and one could not exist without the other. Therefore, they balanced out: "Since pain naturally and infallibly produces a pleasure in proportion to it, every individual cr.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6faa369 | The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 41563ad | A left-hander, Leonardo wrote from right to left on a page, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a4bf824 | and was again willing to embrace flamboyant, eccentric, and artistic free | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8edf88d | and was again willing to embrace flamboyant, eccentric, and artistic free spirits. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 787bf09 | The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. --Apple's "Think Different" commercial, 1997" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1233b46 | Painting a conventional portrait for a pushy patron did not interest him. Nor did money motivate him. He painted portraits if the subject struck his fancy, such as the Musician, or if a powerful ruler demanded it, as in the case of Ludovico with his mistresses. But he didn't dance to the music of patrons. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6ea10cc | Youngest child of Laurene and Steve. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 70e8b38 | Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7075f61 | Hired by Jobs in 2000 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 006bf74 | Daughter | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0849599 | 21. With Erin in Kyoto, 2010: Like Reed and Lisa, she got a special trip to Japan with her father. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c4eb1a7 | We believe that we are on the face of the earth to make great products, and that's not changing. We are constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. We believe in saying no to thousands of projects, so that we can really focus on th.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 966cef1 | Other than a little training in commercial math at what was known as an "abacus school," Leonardo was mainly self-taught. He often seemed defensive about being an "unlettered man," as he dubbed himself with some irony. But he also took pride that his lack of formal schooling led him to be a disciple of experience and experiment." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| dbcfdff | His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f6039a7 | Leonardo was experimenting with the trick known as anamorphosis, in which some elements of a work may look distorted when viewed straight on but appear accurate when viewed from another angle. Leonardo occasionally made sketches of the technique in his notebooks. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c168dde | His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish. In fact she strongly encouraged me to be honest about his failings as well as his strengths. She is one of the smartest | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 909a280 | Leonardo was not content merely to measure every aspect of every body part. In addition, he felt compelled to record what occurs when each of these parts moves. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 844ddf1 | Leonardo's interest in machinery was linked to his fascination with motion. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b81bd5a | Both assessments contain a lot of truth, but there is more to it than that. There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3315efe | destroy everything we stand for," he said. "I" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e972726 | the calm in the vortex. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9b362ca | En la pintura, las acciones de las figuras expresan, en todos los casos, la intencion de su animo>>, | Walter Isaacson |