But for the time being the personality clashes were manageable, mainly because the company was doing so well.
At the trial in March 1952, Turing pled guilty, though he made clear he felt no remorse. Max Newman appeared as a character witness. Convicted and stripped of his security clearance,VI Turing was offe...
At that time in IBM you had to wear a white shirt, dark pants and a black tie with your badge stapled to your shoulder or something, said Steve Bristow, an engineer. At Atari the work people did count...
Apple’s stock went up a full point, or almost 7%, when Jobs’s resignation was announced. East Coast stockholders always worried about California flakes running the company, explained the editor of a t...
Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early
After the speech Jobs hung around on the edge of the stage chatting with students. He watched Powell leave, then come back and stand at the edge of the crowd, then leave again. He bolted out after her...
«l’immaginazione è più importante della conoscenza».
Your book, he said. I won’t even read it. But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about
Was too revealing. But talking to him afterward, I found myself rather captivated, as so many others have been over the years, by his engaging intensity. We stayed in touch, even after he was ousted f...
Values of commons-based sharing and of private enterprise often conflict, most notably over the extent to which innovations should be patent-protected. The commons crowd had its roots in the hacker et...
Usual, he threw himself into the marketing, working with James Vincent and Duncan Milner at the ad agency (now called TBWA/ Media Arts Lab), with Lee Clow advising from a semiretired perch. The commer...
Up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became
Then man-computer symbiosis, as Licklider called it, will remain triumphant. Artificial intelligence need not be the holy grail of computing. The goal instead could be to find ways to optimize the col...
Them for at most $9.99. Jobs came in and offered publishers what he had refused to offer record companies: They could set any price they wanted for their
The world are the ones who do. —Apple’s Think Different commercial,
System, he explained to Time. We can take full responsibility for the user experience. We can do things that the other guys can’t do. Apple’s first integrated foray into the digital hub strategy was v...
Stuck with him. He saw a calf being born, and he was amazed
Society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. Therein
Over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I’d worked. But now that I was...
Managers in the spring of 1976. The senior executive at the meeting was impressed, and seemed torn, but he finally said it was not something that HP could develop. It was a hobbyist product, at least...