Use as few chips as possible, both as a personal challenge and because he did not want to take advantage of his colleague’s largesse. Much of the work was done in the garage of a friend just around th...
On a trip to London with Jobs, Ive had the thankless task of choosing the hotel. He picked the Hempel, a tranquil five- star boutique hotel with a sophisticated minimalism that he thought Jobs would l...
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...
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
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...
Innovation can be sparked by engineering talent, but it must be combined with business skills to set the world afire.
Then man-computer symbiosis, as Licklider called it, will remain triumphant. Artificial intelligence need not be the holy grail of computing. The goal instead could be to find ways to optimize the col...
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...
I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.
People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.
Interviews with Steve Jobs, Jeff Bewkes, Rick Stengel, Andy Serwer, Josh Quittner, Rupert Murdoch.
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.
Up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became
If you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
I hate it when people call themselves entrepreneurs when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the w...
He’s a very, very sensitive guy. That’s one of the things that makes his antisocial behavior, his rudeness, so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be ru...
I had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time’s editors and extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him wi...
They’d ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.
History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors.
Of creating new products. But his more important
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