Home in Pahrump, Nevada, where he played the penny slot machines and lived off his social security check. He later claimed he had no regrets. I made the best decision for me at the time. Both of them...
His wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage,
Had been his most productive in terms of creating new products. But his
Girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York City. NOLAN BUSHNELL. Founder of Atari an...
Five chips.
Fired, abused, abandoned, or otherwise infuriated, and I feared he would not be comfortable with my getting them to talk. And indeed he did turn out to be skittish when word trickled back to him of
Finally decided on Integrated Electronics Corp. That wasn’t very thrilling, either, but it had the virtue that it could be abridged—as Intel.
Father figure to Jobs. REGIS MCKENNA. Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor. MIKE MURRAY. Early Macintosh marketing director. PAUL OTELLINI. CEO of Intel who helped sw...
Engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO
Easy. It took scientists forty years to map the neurological activity of the one-millimeter-long roundworm, which has 302 neurons and 8,000 synapses.I The human brain has 86 billion neurons and up to...
Early years at Time, I was assigned to work under the national affairs editor, Otto Friedrich, a wry man with a bushy red mustache who seemed perpetually amused by himself. He taught me a wonderful in...
Demonstration to poke fun at himself. A word that’s sometimes used to describe me is ‘mercurial,’ he said, then paused. The audience laughed knowingly, especially those in the front rows, which were...
Couscous and a variety of garden-raised vegetables. It was beautifully warm and intimate, with everyone and the kids all able to sit in one room, Waters recalled. The
Connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. He and his colleagues at Apple were able to think different...
Conformed to the principle of least action, a foundation of physics that holds that light or any object moving between two points should follow the easiest path.3 Planck’s paper not only contributed t...
Cofounder of Pixar who clashed with Jobs. BURRELL SMITH. Brilliant, troubled hardware designer on the original Mac team, afflicted with schizophrenia in the 1990s. AVADIS AVIE TEVANIAN. Worked with Jo...
Circuit. I don’t remember any time when a light bulb went off and the whole thing was there, conceded Noyce. It was more like, every day, you would say, ‘Well, if I could do this, then maybe I could d...
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...
Been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison’s conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates’s philanthropic impulses nor the competitiv...
Beach bum with a bushy beard, wild hair, goofy grin, and twinkling eyes named Lee Clow, who was the creative director of the agency’s office in the Venice Beach section of Los Angeles. Clow was savvy...