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...
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.
The good men may do separately, he wrote, is small compared with what they may do collectively.
The company began attracting influential new investors.
That seemed a bit odd. I didn’t yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently publi...
Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: A person was either a hero or a bozo, a product was either amazing or shit
On Thanksgiving weekend of his senior year, Wozniak visited the University of Colorado.
Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself,
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...
Long live impudence! It is my guardian angel in this world. That
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...
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930
Leonardo’s initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on human skulls. He started with a skull that had been sawed in half, top to bottom (fig. 60). Then the front of the left half was sawed off. His gro...
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...
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.24
Jobs, who could identify with each of those sentiments, wrote some of the lines himself, including They push the human race forward. By the time of the Boston Macworld in early August, they had produc...
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 flew down to have lunch with Eisner, who was stunned at his audacity. They had a three-picture deal, and Pixar had made only one. Each side had its own nuclear weapons.
I’ve learned over the years that when you have really good people you don’t have to baby them, Jobs later explained. By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things.