Joanne had one requirement: Her child must be adopted by college graduates. So the doctor arranged for the baby to be placed with a lawyer and his wife. But when a boy was born—on February 24, 1955—th...
I’ve always been, he wrote, full of whims and mischief, and as moody as ever!36
It was thus that in the second half of 1969—amid the static of Woodstock, Chappaquiddick, Vietnam War protests, Charles Manson, the Chicago Eight trial, and Altamont—the culmination was reached for th...
Instead, Franklin found a good and faithful helpmate who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far more valuable to a rising tradesman.
In the middle of Lisa’s eighth-grade year, her teachers called Jobs. There were serious problems, and it was probably best for her to move out of her mother’s house. So Jobs went on a walk with Lisa,...
In doing so, he learned one of his pragmatic lessons about jealousy and modesty: he found that people were reluctant to support a proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one’s r...
If there is no love, what then?2
If I had to choose between justice and disorder, on the one hand, and injustice and order, on the other, I would always choose the latter.
I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were lacking in our factory - was as sense of teamwork and discipline. If we didn't have...
I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)
I keep thinking about all the time away from my family this will cause, and the time away from the other family at Pixar, Jobs said. But the only reason I want to do it is that the world will be a bet...
At that time in IBM you had to wear a white shirt, dark pants and a black tie with your badge stapled to your shoulder or something, said Steve Bristow, an engineer. At Atari the work people did count...
As scientists would discover after Einstein’s death, Schwarzschild’s odd theory was right. Stars could collapse and create such a phenomenon, and in fact they often did. In the 1960s, physicists such...
As Osborne famously declared, Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous. Jobs found that approach to be morally appalling, and he spent days making fun of Osborne. This guy just doesn't get it,...
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...
Were creating crawlers that would serve as search tools for the Web. These included the WWW Wanderer built by Matthew Gray at MIT, WebCrawler by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington, AltaVi...
Went to Williams College, where the famed historian James MacGregor Burns drily noted, He was among my median students.17 He spent more time thinking about starting businesses than studying for class....
That whatever he was touting was the best thing he
Over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I’d worked. But now that I was...
Markets rather than merely chasing old ones.