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...
Suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused to budge, despite Joanna Hoffman’s pushback, from his commitment to have...
Strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin
Story, I interviewed more than a hundred friends, relatives, competitors, adversaries, and colleagues. His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what...
Stories involving the troubles in Northern Ireland, Morocco’s war for the Spanish Sahara, and a ring of traders violating the sanctions against Rhodesia. He was exhilarated by danger. Once in Belfast...
Soldering himself. When they completed a board, they would hand it off to Wozniak. I would plug each assembled board into the TV and keyboard to test it to see if it worked, he said. If it did, I put...
Smart call. To make the Apple II successful required more than just Wozniak’s awesome circuit design. It would need to be packaged into a fully integrated consumer product, and that was Jobs’s role. H...
Results in binary code with little lights. When it was finished, Fernandez told Wozniak there was someone at Homestead High he should meet. His name is Steve. He likes to do pranks like you do, and he...
Receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers...
Progress comes not only in great leaps but also from hundreds of small steps.
Poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.
Others wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked
One is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.
One featured on its first brochure: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Jobs felt that design simplicity should be linked to making products easy to use. Those goals do not always go together....
Of the most momentous innovations tiptoe quietly onto history’s stage. On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee was glancing through the Internet’s alt.hypertext newsgroup and ran across this question: Is anyon...
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 published one on Benjamin Franklin and wa...
Key challenge for managers is how to strike a balance between being decisive and being collegial,
Innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humanities and sciences interact. When Einstein was stymied w...
In a way that Sony, which had all the assets and heritage, never could accomplish.
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