أن نحتفظ بالقدرة على الاندهاش كالأطفال، والتعجب من الأشياء العادية مثل سقوط التفاح والمصاعد ، هي الصفة التي اتسم بها اينشتاين وغيره
Was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned,
Been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison’s conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates’s philanthropic impulses nor the competitiv...
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 girlfriend pregnant...
It is clear that Leonardo was charming and attractive and had many friends. His disposition was so lovable that he commanded everyone’s affection, according to Vasari. He was so pleasing in conversati...
Recalled Stephen Crocker, a graduate student on the UCLA team who had driven up with his best friend and colleague, Vint Cerf. So they decided to meet regularly, rotating among their sites. The polite...
Were superlatives. The product was incredible, he said, the best thing we could have imagined. He praised the beauty of even the parts unseen. Balancing on his fingertips the foot-square circuit board...
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.
Whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him. When he was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on the cover of Time, and soon thereafter he began offering me his...
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...
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...
Special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio. 1. At his home in Woodside, 1982: He was such a perfectionist that he had
Build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century wa...
Receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers...
I was on one of my fruitarian diets Steve Jobs recalled I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it wou...
Unexpected results drove new theories.
He affected an attitude that combined wiry and weird intensity with aloof rebelliousness. McCollum later said, He was usually off in a corner doing something on his own and really didn’t want to have...
Up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became
Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘Wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
Stories involving the troubles in Northern Ireland, Morocco’s war for the Spanish Sahara, and a ring of traders violating the sanctions against Rhodesia. He was exhilarated by danger. Once in Belfast...
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