There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on. If
Then he began writing the software that would get the microprocessor to display images on the screen. Because he could not afford to pay for computer time, he wrote the code by hand. After a couple of...
The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then dest...
The ladies staged tableaux vivants, in which they dressed in costume to re-create famous paintings.
Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Edison and Ford. More...
So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way
Predictions that digital tools would allow workers to telecommute were never fully realized. One of Marissa Mayer’s first acts as CEO of Yahoo! was to discourage the practice of working from home, rig...
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
One of Steve Wozniak’s first memories was going to his father’s workplace on a weekend and being shown electronic parts, with his dad putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them.
On its first over was the famous picture of Earth taken from space; its subtitle was Access to Tools. The underlying philosophy was that technology could be our friend. Brand wrote on the first page o...
My father told me, ‘You always want to be in the middle,’ he said. I didn’t want to be up with the high-level people like Steve. My dad was an engineer, and that’s what I wanted to be. I was way too...
Many years later, after Friedland had become a billionaire copper and gold mining executive—working out of Vancouver, Singapore, and Mongolia—I met him for drinks in New York. That evening I emailed J...
MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became close. She wrote novels loosely based on her mother Joanne (Anywhere but Here), Jobs and his daughte...
Like Spinoza, Einstein did not believe in a personal God who interacted with man. But they both believed that a divine design was reflected in the elegant laws that governed the way the universe worke...
Leonardo’s interest in machinery was linked to his fascination with motion.
Leonardo da Vinci liked to boast that, because he was not formally educated, he had to learn from his own experiences instead
LAURENE POWELL. Savvy and good-humored Penn graduate, went to Goldman Sachs and then Stanford Business School, married Steve Jobs in 1991. GEORGE RILEY. Jobs’s Memphis-born friend and lawyer. ARTHUR R...
Jobs liked to tell the story- and he did so to his team that day- about how everything that he had done correctly had required a moment when he hit the rewind button. In each case he had to rework som...
Jobs could be charming to people he hated just as easily as he could be insulting to people he liked.
Jobs barked at him.