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Year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused
Would step in after one of Jobs’s tantrums. She would go to his office, shut the door, and gently lecture him. I know, I know, he would say. Well, then, please stop doing it, she would insist. Bowers...
Wanted to build a frequency counter when he was twelve, and he was able to look up Bill
Wanted instead to take a walk so that we could
Veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his reality distortion field.
There’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation.
The removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic
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...
Special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio. 1. At his home in Woodside, 1982: He was such a perfectionist that he had
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...
Recalled Stephen Crocker, a graduate student on the UCLA team who had driven up with his best friend and colleague, Vint Cerf. So they decided to meet regularly, rotating among their sites. The polite...
Really don’t apply to Apple’s culture. Levitt later
Rather than just websites. Along the way he produced not only transforming products but also, on his second try, a lasting company, endowed with his DNA, that is filled with creative designers and dar...
Proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one’s reputation. So he put himself as much as I could out of sight and gave credit for the idea to his friends. This method worked so we...
Progress comes not only in great leaps but also from hundreds of small steps.
Plow deep.
Of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfr...
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...