He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him with a story that was too revealing. But talking to him afterward, I found myself rather captivated, as so many others...
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 never really cared too much about mechanical things.
Even before Jobs started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read. This, however, led to some problems once he got to school. I was kind of bored for the first few years, so I occupied...
Einstein later said, it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority.57
Eddy Cue, who was in charge of the store, predicted that Apple would sell a million songs in six months. Instead the iTunes Store sold a million songs in six days.
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...
But Sony couldn’t. It had pioneered portable music with the Walkman, it had a great record company, and it had a long history of making beautiful consumer devices. It had all of the assets to compete...
But Jobs's most poignant ruminations were about growing old and facing the future:Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most case...
Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Berkeley to Jobs’s house
Being disputatious, he concluded, was a very bad habit because contradicting people produced disgusts and perhaps enmities.
Basic to his political thinking was the recognition of the dignity of the individual and the protection of political and intellectual freedom.50 When
BRENNAN. Novia de Jobs en el instituto Homestead y madre de su hija Lisa. NOLAN BUSHNELL. Fundador de Atari y emprendedor modelo para Jobs. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Hija
Arthur Schieble died in August 1955, after the adoption was finalized. Just after Christmas that year, Joanne and Abdulfattah were married in St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Green Bay. He go...
Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into tyranny, he warned the Russian scientists. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the gove...
After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.
Adolf Hitler polled highest as the greatest living person. Albert Einstein was second.
When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.
«Tengo semejante fe en el ser humano que creo que hablar con las personas es mucho más importante que esforzarse en averiguar qué es lo que quieren hacer»,