Reality has an odd habit of catching up with satire.
Needed to be uncomplicated enough that a stoned freshman
Medical leave. I confessed to her that when he had
Glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. At that point his voice became slightly more emphatic, excited, as if he were sitting right in front of the crowd, his
Five chips.
Disdainful of the Eckert-Mauchly mercenary approach. Eckert and Mauchly are a commercial group with a commercial patent policy, he complained to a friend. We cannot work with them directly or indirect...
Declined to keep licensing it out. If the platform goes closed, it is over, Kahng said. Total destruction. Closed is the kiss of death. Jobs disagreed. He telephoned Ed Woolard to say he was getting A...
Changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and moved to San Francisco. Esslinger picked the original name not merely because frogs have the ability to metamorphose, but as a salute to its...
Assessing Ronald Reagan. There are so many basic questions that even his friends cannot quite figure out, such as (to start with the most basic one): Was he smart? From the brilliant-versus-clueless q...
And he would take me to a sushi restaurant in
And extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant
We kind of missed the boat on that, he recalled. So we needed to catch up real fast. The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to...
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An Ameri...
Von Neumann, by contrast, wore a three-piece suit at almost all times, including on a donkey ride down the Grand Canyon; even as a student he was so well dressed that, upon first meeting him, the math...
Unfortunately his Zen training never quite produced in him a Zen-like calm or inner serenity, and that too is part of his legacy. He was often tightly coiled and impatient, traits he made no effort to...
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...
That started an exchange about the early history
So Jobs and his team became excited about the prospect of building a phone that they would want to use. That’s the best motivator of all, Jobs later said.
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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.