He kept asking Kay and others for an assessment of trends that foretold what the future might hold for the company. During one maddening session, Kay, whose thoughts often seemed tailored to go direct...
There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs’s accomplishments
PAUL REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955. REED JOBS. Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell. RON JOHNSON. Hired by Jobs in 2000 to...
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.
He was a man of outstanding beauty and infinite grace, Vasari said of him. He was striking and handsome, and his great presence brought comfort to the most troubled soul.
I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.
Internet services at Apple, Jobs’s wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA ANDY CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER....
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...
When the design was finally locked in, Jobs called the Macintosh team together for a ceremony. Real artists sign their work, he said. So he got out a sheet of drafting paper and a Sharpie pen and had...
Had been his most productive in terms of creating new products. But his
The hub, it would allow the portable devices to become simpler. A lot of the functions that the devices tried to do, such as editing the video or pictures, they did poorly because they had small scree...
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.
History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors.
Up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became
They’d ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.
I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics, he said. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people w...
One of the commonly accepted narratives of the Internet is that it was built to survive a nuclear attack. This enrages many of its architects, including Bob Taylor and Larry Roberts, who insistently a...
The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that a wife was a luxury, affordable only when a man was making a comfortable l...
I came to work with Steve for a week, Lin recalled.
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