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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3bca90b | Eve in Foothills Park, Palo Alto: "She's a pistol and has the strongest" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5540443 | Each period is dominated by a mood, with the result that most men fail to see the tyrant who rules over them. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b89136e | In the meantime, he rejected a friend's offer to help him get a job at an insurance company, dismissing it as "an eight hour day of mindless drudgery." As he told Maric, "One must avoid stultifying affairs."8" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a4db265 | I do not know how the Third World War will be fought," he answered, "but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth--rocks."20" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| bf2df81 | Jobs's engagement with Eastern spirituality, and especially Zen 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 focus." Jobs also became deeply influenced by the emphasis that Buddhism places on .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| aa49ea4 | We should not make the mistake of blaming capitalism for all existing social and political evils, nor of assuming that the very establishment of socialism would be sufficient to cure the social and political ills of humanity, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 189be4d | Baby You're a Rich Man Before and after he was rich, and indeed throughout a life that included being both broke and a billionaire, 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 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3251eac | I'm deeply grateful to John and Ann Doerr, Laurene Powell, Mona Simpson, Leon Wieseltier, and Ken Auletta, all of whom provided invaluable support along the way. Alice Mayhew, who has been my editor at Simon & Schuster for thirty years, and Jonathan Karp, the publisher, both were extraordinarily diligent and attentive in shepherding this book, as was | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 077ab26 | In addition, like many companies, Sony worried about cannibalization. If it built a music player and service that made it easy for people to share digital songs, that might hurt sales of its record division. One of Jobs's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. "If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will,"he said. So even though an iPhone might cannibalize sales of an iPod, or an iPad might cannibalize sal.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f14c376 | people should consider themselves citizens of the world. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2e13bab | At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. "No," he replied, "because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them." Then he pulled out a device that was about the size of a desk diary. "Do you want to see something neat?" When he flipped it open, it turned out to be a mock-up of a computer that could fit on your lap, with a keyboard and scr.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 84e0fcf | Berg to discuss the advances that were being made in gene splicing and recombinant DNA. Berg described how difficult it was to do experiments in a biology lab, where it could take weeks | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c7f94b1 | Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things--that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the pre.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b3ed90d | Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin. Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his leathery exterior. After dropping out of high school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a mechanic until, at age nineteen, he joined the Coast Guard, even though he didn't know how to swim. He was deployed on the USS General M. .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8196a9e | The best way to predict the future is to invent it | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3693a1c | Simon & Schuster for thirty years, and Jonathan Karp, the publisher, both were extraordinarily diligent and attentive in shepherding this book, as was Amanda Urban, my agent. Crary Pullen was dogged in tracking down photos, and my assistant, Pat Zindulka, calmly facilitated things. I also want to thank my father, Irwin, and my daughter, Betsy, for reading the book and offering advice. When the original version of this book came out, it caus.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8ce4c73 | Ada byla tworca konceptualizacji komputera (...), maszyny, ktora by przechowywala, manipulowala, przetwarzala, modyfikowala wszystko, co da sie wyrazic symbolicznie | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7f50a27 | ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fb73488 | It reinforced my sense of what was important--creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e1b81e2 | I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world. | the-innovators walter-isaacson | Ada Lovelace | |
| 44e4352 | had been his most productive in terms of creating new products. But his | Walter Isaacson | ||
| df3c697 | 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 | ||
| d6f9751 | There Paul tried to pass along his love of mechanics and cars. "Steve, this is your workbench now," he said as he marked off a section of the table in their garage." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 306f175 | 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 you've done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, "Bye. I have to go. I'm going crazy and I'm getting out of here." And they go and hibernate .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2e3f854 | He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2555d3c | Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his sister, the writer Mona Simpson. His wife and their three children had taken a quick trip to go skiing, but he was not healthy enough to join them. He was in a reflective mood, and we talked for more than an hour. He began by recalling that he had wanted to build a frequency counter when he was twelve, and he was able to .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 665023a | The fifteenth century of Leonardo and Columbus and Gutenberg was a time of invention, exploration, and the spread of knowledge by new technologies. In short, it was a time like our own. That is why we have much to learn from Leonardo. His ability to combine art, science, technology, the humanities, and imagination remains an enduring recipe for creativity. So, too, was his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d75a6fb | he had it completely gutted and rebuilt. Walls | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c15c5c1 | off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged it to start ticking | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6a0f563 | He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."23" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6eb04e5 | Compromisers may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5a4bad6 | As the film progressed, Jobs became ever more excited about it. He had been talking to various companies, ranging from Hallmark to Microsoft, about selling Pixar, but | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e614653 | The Adoption | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b1dbe70 | went to the cemetery he had chosen and were driven around in a golf cart. There were no plots available next to those of Paul and Clara Jobs, and Laurene hated the other options that she was shown, where the headstones were crammed into rows on an undistinguished, flat piece of land. But like her husband, she was imaginative and willful. She pointed to a bucolic ridge crowned by one of the area's last remaining apricot orchards, the type of.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| f74dd20 | He believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e856bd3 | From Mike Markkula he had learned the importance of packaging and presentation. People do judge a book by its cover, so for the box of the Macintosh, Jobs chose a full-color design and kept trying to make it look better. "He got the guys to redo it fifty times," recalled Alain Rossmann, a member of the Mac team who married Joanna Hoffman. "It was going to be thrown in the trash as soon as the consumer opened it, but he was obsessed by how i.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 10dba04 | The relationship lurched up and down for five years. Redse hated living in his sparsely furnished Woodside house. Jobs had hired a hip young couple, who had once worked at Chez Panisse, as housekeepers and vegetarian cooks, and they made her feel like an interloper. She would occasionally move out to an apartment of her own in Palo Alto, especially after one of her torrential arguments with Jobs. "Neglect is a form of abuse," she once scraw.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d8cc7a0 | 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. At Stanford, 1982: "How many of you are virgins? How many of you have taken LSD?" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0676fc3 | most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ba9c963 | My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything: the people you hire, who gets .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1ae1f02 | I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis," he later said. His intensity, however, made it difficult for him to achieve inner peace; his Zen awareness was" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ed10b1a | Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9503b50 | Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue." So in the Junto, he began to work on his use of silence and gentle dialogue. One method, which he had developed during his mock debates with John Collins in Boston and then when discoursing with Keimer, was to pursue topics through soft, Socratic queries." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1d2e64a | Einstein consideraba que la lealtad a un partido implicaba renunciar a cierta independencia de pensamiento, | Walter Isaacson |