One is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.
Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general-purpose computer were women: Despite our coming of age in an...
CHAPTER THIRTY The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The iTunes Store: I’m the Pied Piper CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Pixar’s F...
Up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.
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.
Earlier that year Jobs had been hoping to find a buyer for Pixar that would let him merely recoup the $50 million he had put in. By the end of the day the shares he had retained—80% of the company—wer...
Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyon...
Of creating new products. But his more important
Finally decided on Integrated Electronics Corp. That wasn’t very thrilling, either, but it had the virtue that it could be abridged—as Intel.
The removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic
Maybe it’s time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently, Business Week wrote in a story headlined Sorry Steve, Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work. Apple’s former chief financial officer, Jose...
Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground. Instead of having a single cause, the great advances of 1937 came from a combination of capabilities, ideas, and needs that coincided in multi...
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...
Innovation can be sparked by engineering talent, but it must be combined with business skills to set the world afire.
Up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became
He fell silent for a very long time. But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch, he said. Click! And you’re gone. Then he paused again and smiled slightly. Maybe that’s why I never like...
They’d ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.
If you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
He turned out to be good in geometry, but he never mastered the use of equations or the rudimentary algebra that existed at the time.
I came to work with Steve for a week, Lin recalled.
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