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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 06e6189 | El respeto ciego por la autoridad es el mayor enemigo de la verdad>>. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ad3d46b | Leonardo said so himself. "Intellectual passion drives out sensuality," he wrote in one of his notebooks." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 8727977 | all of his obnoxious behavior, Jobs also had the ability to instill in his team an esprit de corps. After tearing people down, he would find ways to lift them up and make them feel that being part of the Macintosh project was an amazing mission. Every | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b84d720 | usual, he threw himself into the marketing, working with James Vincent and Duncan Milner at the ad agency (now called TBWA/ Media Arts Lab), with Lee Clow advising from a semiretired perch. The commercial they first produced was a gentle scene of a guy in faded jeans and sweatshirt reclining in a chair, looking at email, a photo album, the New York Times, books, and video on an iPad propped on his lap. There were no words, just | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 94998cb | and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 0e4a74a | Steve, can I talk to you?" she said. His jaw dropped. "Do you have any idea what a privilege it has been even to know someone as fine as John Sculley?" she demanded. He averted his gaze. "Can't you look me in the eyes when I'm talking to you?" she asked. But when Jobs did so--giving her his practiced, unblinking stare--she recoiled. "Never mind, don't look at me," she said. "When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look int.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c6dc9bc | should | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 427e74e | I 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 | ||
| f460c03 | We didn't know much about each other twenty years ago. We were guided by our intuition; you swept me off my feet. It was snowing when we got married at the Ahwahnee. Years passed, kids came, good times, hard times, but never bad times. Our love and respect has endured and grown. We've been through so much together and here we are right back where we started 20 years ago--older, wiser--with wrinkles on our faces and hearts. We now know many .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5b0ecd3 | An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard. | Age | ||
| 031f144 | ALCORN. Chief engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e6c0138 | ERIN JOBS. Middle child of Laurene Powell and Steve Jobs. EVE JOBS. Youngest child of Laurene and Steve. PATTY JOBS. Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs two years after they adopted Steve. PAUL REINHOLD JOBS | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 15e4343 | This will be really powerful to have it in your voice," Clow argued. "It will be a way to reclaim the brand." Jobs couldn't decide whether to use the version with his voice or to stick with Dreyfuss. Finally, the night came when they had to ship the ad; it was due to air, appropriately enough, on the television premiere of Toy Story. As was often the case, Jobs did not like to be forced to make a decision. He told Clow to ship both versions.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d7b6803 | Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 09a094e | Kilby displayed his awshucks humility. "When I hear that kind of thing," he responded, "it reminds me of what the beaver told the rabbit as they stood at the base of Hoover Dam: 'No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3cf252a | This biography is essential reading." --The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide "A superbly told story of a superbly lived life." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 1d9f9c4 | Jobs had not tempered his way of dealing with employees. "He applied charm or public humiliation in a way that in most cases proved to be pretty effective," Tribble recalled. But sometimes it wasn't. One engineer, David Paulsen, put in ninety-hour weeks for the first ten months at NeXT. He quit when "Steve walked in one Friday afternoon and told us how unimpressed he was with what we were doing." When Business Week asked him why he treated .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 7063a8e | I like to think that something survives after you die," he said. "It's strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures." He fell silent for a very long time. "But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone." Then he paused again and smiled slightl.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ac699bf | In a letter to Pixar shareholders, Jobs explained that winning the right to have equal branding with Disney on all the movies, as well as advertising and toys, was the most important aspect of the deal. "We want Pixar to grow into a brand that embodies the same level of trust as the Disney brand," he wrote. "But in order for Pixar to earn this trust, consumers must know that Pixar is creating the films." Jobs was known during his career for.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9feee61 | The compensation issue in some ways echoed Jobs's parking quirk. He refused such trappings as having a "Reserved for CEO" spot, but he assumed for himself the right to park in the handicapped spaces. He wanted to be seen (both by himself and by others) as someone willing to work for $1 a year, but he also wanted to have huge stock grants bestowed upon him. Jangling inside him were the contradictions of a counterculture rebel turned business.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 4a4137c | similar attention on the title bars atop windows and documents. He had Atkinson and Kare do them over and over again as he agonized over their look. He did not like the ones on the Lisa because they were too black and harsh. He | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 83c97d3 | A tanker truck appeared far down the wavy surface of the highway, headlights on, its weight and shimmering cylindrical shape and dedicated purpose so great and unrelenting that it seemed to move and jitter against the sun's afterglow without sound or mechanically driven power, sustained by its own momentum, as though the truck had a destiny that had been planned long ago. | James Lee Burke | ||
| e3a72f6 | Hackberry tried to convince himself that Collins was dead, his body long ago eaten by coyotes or lost inside the bowels of the earth. Regardless, Hackberry told himself, Collins belonged in the past or the place in the collective unconscious where most demons had their origins. If evil was actually a separate and self-sustaining entity, he thought, its manifestation was in the nationalistic wars that not only produced the greatest suffering.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a6a687c | if you haven't noticed, the United States government is the biggest weapons manufacturer in the world. | James Lee Burke | ||
| e0ae88b | each morning is a blessing, as votive in nature as a communion wafer raised to the sky. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 8ef502d | THE TAILINGS OF the monsoon season moved across the sun that evening, darkening and wetting the land and lighting the sky with electricity that quivered and disappeared between the buttes and the clouds. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 57178b8 | what do you say to people who are doing their best when their best is not enough? | James Lee Burke | ||
| bbcba58 | Women are the perfect creation. I don't care who hears that. Even before I hit puberty, they lived nightly in my dreams, and I have the feeling they'll live with me in the grave. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 97ae83e | The Great Whore of Babylon is a commanding mistress. Once she widens her thighs and takes you inside her, she never lets go. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 60668e6 | More important, it's a place where there are no victims. Everyone there knows the rules and the | James Lee Burke | ||
| b875643 | spent the rest of the afternoon in my room. A faucet was ticking in the bathroom as loudly as a mechanical clock, with the same sense of urgency and waste. I tried to tighten the | James Lee Burke | ||
| 18e4f9b | How do you get mad at a man who speaks in Petrarchan sonnets? | James Lee Burke | ||
| 3672592 | According to legend, he had worn elegant clothes and spoken Parisian French and had his land and wealth stolen from him by carpetbaggers after the war. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 53312ad | IN MY OPINION, one of the great follies in the world is to put yourself inside the head of dysfunctional people. The mistake we usually make is to assume there is a rationale for their behavior. In most cases, there is none. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 3598475 | Those are props from a film we made about a serial killer." He gave me the title and named the actors and the directors. My head was throbbing. I couldn't process" | James Lee Burke | ||
| cbaa88f | The advantage of having a little knowledge about the classical world is that few other people do. The second advantage is your awareness that every problem facing us today has already occurred many times previously, and the behavior of the players is always predictable and the consequences are always the same. | James Lee Burke | ||
| c2fcbb4 | How many major decisions did you actually make? | James Lee Burke | ||
| e2b92c7 | go with the wind, all of us twirling among young people who wore flowers in their hair, a church bell clanging without stop in a Spanish mission. Roll on forever, Woody. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 641ee6e | I also smell it on you. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 9b6f138 | We had little money but didn't think of ourselves as poor. Our vision, if I can call it that, was not materialistic. If we had a concept about ourselves, it was egalitarian, although we would not have known what that word meant. We spoke French entirely. There was a bond between Cajuns and people of color. Cajuns didn't travel, because they believed they lived in the best place on earth. But somehow the worst in us, or outside of us, assert.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| e5ca878 | from which I had graduated in 1960 with a teacher's certificate and a degree in English. | James Lee Burke | ||
| ef6049a | eyes like light trapped in sherry, | James Lee Burke | ||
| ebaa423 | We're going to call him Mr. Adorable. No, we're going to call him Snuggs, | James Lee Burke | ||
| e49faac | Bienvenu, mon raton laveur et votre tee amis, aussi. | James Lee Burke |