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...
Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes, he recalled. I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.
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...
Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him, Cook said. That allows him to focus on a few thin...
Jobs and his team went to a Xerox dealer to look at the Star as soon as it was released. But he deemed it so worthless that he told his colleagues they couldn’t spend the money to buy one. We were ver...
Jobs and Wozniak had no personal assets, but Wayne (who worried about a global financial Armageddon) kept gold coins hidden in his mattress. Because they had structured Apple as a simple partnership r...
It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
It is tasteless to prolong life artificially, he told Dukas. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell, George Riley, Kristina Kiehl, Kathryn Smith. John Lauerman and Connie Guglielmo, Jobs Liver Transplant, Bloomberg, Aug. 21, 2009. Return: Interviews with St...
In addition, like many companies, Sony worried about cannibalization. If it built a music player and service that made it easy for people to share digital songs, that might hurt sales of its record di...
If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!
I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted t...
I had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time’s editors and extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him wi...
I do not know the substance of the considerations and recommendations which Dr. Szilárd proposes to submit to you, Einstein wrote. The terms of secrecy under which Dr. Szilárd is working at present do...
I came to work with Steve for a week, Lin recalled.
Hume saw clearly that certain concepts, for example that of causality, cannot be deduced from our perceptions of experience by logical methods, Einstein noted. A version of this philosophy, sometimes...
Hume applied his skeptical rigor to the concept of time. It made no sense, he said, to speak of time as having an absolute existence that was independent of observable objects whose movements permitte...
History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors.
His values were much aligned with mine. He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that...
His unstoppable curiosity triumphed, and Leonardo went into the cave. There he discovered, embedded in the wall, a fossil whale. Oh mighty and once-living instrument of nature, he wrote, your vast str...