They were still walking and talking when the stores opened at 10, and they went into Eddie Bauer. It had an entrance off the mall and another off the parking lot. Jobs decided that Apple stores should...
Religion was at it's best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith, rather than living like Jesus or s...
It was a very big moment that’s burned into my mind. When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that. I will never forget that moment. This discover...
The people who received RFC 1 felt that they were being included in a fun process rather than being dictated to by a bunch of protocol czars. It was a network they were talking about, so it made sense...
There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he would go, Did you think of this? said Fadell. And then we'd all go, Holy...
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...
Jobs took McCollum’s class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device with a photocell that would switch on a circuit when exposed to light...
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If there is no love, what then?2
Woz became more of a loner when the boys his age began going out with girls and partying, endeavors that he found far more complex than designing circuits. Where before I was popular and riding bikes...
Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. He was a genius undisciplined by diligence.
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 ingraine...
One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, he said. That's true for companies, and it's true for products.
Good authors copy, great artists steal-Picassco
Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicit...
Needed to be uncomplicated enough that a stoned freshman
When you open the box of an iPhone or iPad, we want that tactile experience to set the tone for how you perceive the product.
The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal.
The sexual act of coitus and the body parts employed for it are so repulsive that, if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornment of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose...
A simple, inspiring mission for Wikipedia: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing. It was a huge, au...
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