With Jobs, he became a keen observer of the phenomenon. The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fi...
Who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the
Went to the cemetery he had chosen and were driven around in a golf cart. There were no plots available next to those of Paul and Clara Jobs, and Laurene hated the other options that she was shown, wh...
Was supposed to have a
Was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned,
Wanted to build a frequency counter when he was twelve, and he was able to look up Bill
Use as few chips as possible, both as a personal challenge and because he did not want to take advantage of his colleague’s largesse. Much of the work was done in the garage of a friend just around th...
Unexpected results drove new theories.
Uncommon around his son, Paul would impart some of his calm. What’s the matter? he would say. You got a feather up your ass? In return he occasionally asked
Truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself. Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition. The minute I dropped out I could stop...
To put anything off-limits. I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that, he said. But I don’t have any skeleto...
To get this whole thing
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...
Then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in
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,
The removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic
The hub, it would allow the portable devices to become simpler. A lot of the functions that the devices tried to do, such as editing the video or pictures, they did poorly because they had small scree...
The device had the property of transresistance and should have a name similar to devices such as the thermistor and varistor, Pierce proposed transistor. Exclaimed Brattain, That’s it! The naming proc...
The Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs’s dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This caused many component failures and earned the Macintosh the nick...