Steve has a reality distortion field. When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s n...
Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry, Larry Ellison said.
Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry, Larry Ellison said. There are cars people are proud to have—Porsche, Ferrari, Prius—because what I drive says something about me. People fe...
Steve Jobs: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
So, in 1748 at age 42—which would turn out to be precisely the midpoint of his life—he retired and turned over the operation of his printing business to his foreman, David Hall.
Sketches Einstein: His Life and Universe A Benjamin Franklin Reader Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Kissinger: A Biography The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (with Evan Thomas)
Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, he wrote Weizmann in 1929, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our 2,000 years of suffering.
She attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville, where the tuition was $76 per year. (In 2013 it was approximately $14,000 per year for in-state residents, a twelve-fold increase a...
Sealing the Microsoft deal by phone with Gates: Bill, thank you for your support of this company. I think the world’s a better place for it.
Savvy and good-humored Penn graduate, went to Goldman Sachs and then Stanford Business School, married Steve Jobs in 1991.
Picasso tenía un dicho: Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban,
Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles
People with the halo effect seem to know exactly what they’re doing and, moreover, make you want to admire them for it.
People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.
Outside of Search, Google’s products—Android, Google Docs—are shit.
Otras dependen más de la deducción, esto es, de empezar partiendo de principios y postulados elegantes que se consideran sagrados, y luego deducir las consecuencias de ellos.
Other than a little training in commercial math at what was known as an abacus school, Leonardo was mainly self-taught. He often seemed defensive about being an unlettered man, as he dubbed himself wi...
One of the engineers told Atkinson that there was no way to build such a mouse commercially. After Atkinson complained to Jobs over dinner, he arrived at the office the next day to discover that Jobs...
One day someone called the Institute and asked to speak to a particular dean. When his secretary said that the dean wasn’t available, the caller hesitantly asked for Einstein’s home address. That was...
One day in the fall of 2010 he was wistfully going through a box of old snapshots with me, and paused over one that showed him visiting Lisa when she was young. I probably didn’t go over there enough,...