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...
To put anything off-limits. I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that, he said. But I don’t have any skeleto...
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...
Generated
Would step in after one of Jobs’s tantrums. She would go to his office, shut the door, and gently lecture him. I know, I know, he would say. Well, then, please stop doing it, she would insist. Bowers...
Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyon...
Freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel li...
Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, 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 mi...
Human ingenuity, wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor m...
Hume applied his skeptical rigor to the concept of time. It made no sense, he said, to speak of time as having an absolute existence that was independent of observable objects whose movements permitte...
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...
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...
Engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO
Managers in the spring of 1976. The senior executive at the meeting was impressed, and seemed torn, but he finally said it was not something that HP could develop. It was a hobbyist product, at least...
They’d ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.
I came to work with Steve for a week, Lin recalled.
Eventually resigned to form a new company to make software
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...
Your book, he said. I won’t even read it. But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about
Floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital, sick with duodenal
Showing 621 to 640 of 1815 results