I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it wors...
I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. And I learned at Atari that I could be an okay engineer, so I knew I could always get by. I was volu...
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...
I didn’t want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.
I decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advance. It’s your book,he said. I won’t even read it...
I decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advance. It’s your book, he said. I won’t even read i...
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 wh...
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...
His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he’d ever
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...
He wished to please everybody, Franklin later said of Keith, and having little to give, he gave expectations.
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.
He lies not because it’s in his interest, he lies because it’s in his nature. It was in Jobs’s nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.
He also flowered intellectually during his last two years in high school and found himself at the intersection, as he had begun to see it, of those who were geekily immersed in electronics and those w...
Hallicrafters,
Form follows emotion
Embrace uncertainty, the ads read.
Einstein’s discovery of special relativity involved an intuition based on a decade of intellectual as well as personal experiences.9 The most important and obvious, I think, was his deep understanding...
Einstein’s brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental process...
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