Tribble said that Jobs would not accept any contrary facts. The best way to describe the situation is a term from Star Trek, Tribble explained. Steve
Torvalds decided to use the GNU General Public License, not because he fully embraced the free-sharing ideology of Stallman (or for that matter his own parents) but because he thought that letting hac...
Tin Toy went on to win the 1988 Academy Award for animated short films, the first computer-generated film to do so. To celebrate, Jobs took Lasseter and his team to Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in...
Tim Cook When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and produced the Think Different ads and the iMac in his first year, it confirmed what most people already knew: that he could be creative and a visionary. H...
Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He c...
Throughout her life, she excelled at being able to translate scientific problems—such as those involving trajectories, fluid flows, explosions, and weather patterns—into mathematical equations and the...
This was fortunate. He would have made a poor notary: he got bored and distracted too easily, especially when a project became routine rather than creative.14
This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of ‘free speech,’ not ‘free beer.’ For
This exposed an aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked: The best and most innovative products don’t always win.
This biography is essential reading. —The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide A superbly told story of a superbly lived life.
Thirty years after Apple went public, he reflected on what it was like to come into money suddenly:I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. A...
They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs’s accomplishments
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.
The two great Semitic peoples, he said, have a great common future. If the Jews did not assure that both sides lived in harmony, he warned friends in the Zionist movement, the struggle would haunt the...
The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.
The result would be random little lurches that would result in what is known as a random walk. The best way for us to envision this is to imagine a drunk who starts at a lamppost and lurches one step...
The relationship lurched up and down for five years. Redse hated living in his sparsely furnished Woodside house. Jobs had hired a hip young couple, who had once worked at Chez Panisse, as housekeeper...
The reason Apple resonates with people is that there’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express t...
The reason Apple can create products like the iPad is that we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts,