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Most outside experts disagreed. Maybe it’s time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently, Business Week wrote in a story headlined Sorry Steve, Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work.
More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it...
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Long live impudence!
Jobs spent part of every day for six months helping to refine the display. It was the most complex fun I’ve ever had, he recalled. It was like being the one evolving the variations on ‘Sgt. Pepper.’ ...
Jobs had a tougher time navigating the controversies over Apple’s desire to keep tight control over which apps could be downloaded onto the iPhone and iPad. Guarding against apps that contained viruse...
Jobs could be charming to people he hated just as easily as he could be insulting to people he liked.
Jobs barked at him.
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...
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 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 used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.
He and Egan also spoke for hours on the phone many nights. One topic they wrestled with was his belief, which came from his Buddhist studies, that it was important to avoid attachment to material obje...
Fish and guests stink after three days.
Calling himself an old-time believer in democracy, he again made clear that his socialist sentiments did not make him sympathetic to Soviet-style controls. All true democrats must stand guard lest the...
CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison’s conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates’s...