Chores that slow down the software development process, said Andrew Heller, the general manager of IBM’s workstation unit, who was so impressed by Jobs that he named his newborn son Steve. The negotia...
A harbinger of a third wave of computing, one that blurred the line between augmented human intelligence and artificial intelligence. The first generation of computers were machines that counted and t...
Great company must be able to impute its values from the first impression it makes.
Went to Williams College, where the famed historian James MacGregor Burns drily noted, He was among my median students.17 He spent more time thinking about starting businesses than studying for class....
If you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
They’d ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.
We need to be the company that manages your relationship with the cloud—streams your music and videos from the cloud, stores your pictures and information, and maybe even your medical data.
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...
Internet services at Apple, Jobs’s wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA ANDY CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER....
Baby You’re a Rich Man Before and after he was rich, and indeed throughout a life that included being both broke and a billionaire, Steve Jobs’s attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimater...
Up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.
What drove me?
People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.
It’s easy to throw stones at Microsoft. They’ve clearly fallen from their dominance. They’ve become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they did and how hard it was. They were very good at th...
Up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became
Innovation can be sparked by engineering talent, but it must be combined with business skills to set the world afire.
Spacewar highlighted three aspects of the hacker culture that became themes of the digital age. First, it was created collaboratively. We were able to build it together, working as a team, which is ho...
One is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.
I’m deeply grateful to John and Ann Doerr, Laurene Powell, Mona Simpson, Leon Wieseltier, and Ken Auletta, all of whom provided invaluable support along the way. Alice Mayhew, who has been my editor a...
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...
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