Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning at Apple....
The other sins on his list were, in order: seeming uninterested, speaking too much about your own life, prying for personal secrets (an unpardonable rudeness), telling long and pointless stories (old...
Steve Jobs was famously stubborn and
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently, he said. The hierarchical systems of the East Co...
Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.
I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, ‘Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
The key to innovation-at Bell Labs and in the digital age in general-was realizing that there was no conflict between nurturing individual geniuses and promoting collaborative teamwork. It was not eit...
Innovation requires articulation.
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Something more finished. But Jobs stared him down, and he agreed to take delivery and pay. After thirty days Apple was on the verge of being profitable. We were able to build the boards more cheaply t...
The key venue for freewheeling discourse was the Monday morning executive team gathering, which started at 9 and went for three or four hours. The focus was always on the future: What should each prod...
The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost, Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that the tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it’s n...
Jobs had not tempered his way of dealing with employees. He applied charm or public humiliation in a way that in most cases proved to be pretty effective, Tribble recalled. But sometimes it wasn’t. On...
Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; and that when Truth and Error have fair play, the form...
Apple. One day he was walking the halls and ran into a young Wharton School graduate who had been Amelio’s assistant and who said he was wrapping up his work. Well, good, because I need someone to do...
– Если что-то вас не устраивает, нельзя говорить: а, ладно, исправим потом, – объяснял Джобс. – Так поступают в других компаниях.
Rμv– 1/2 gμv R = 8πTμv The left side of the equation starts with the term Rμv, which is the Ricci tensor he had embraced earlier. The term gμv is the all-important metric tensor, and the term R is the...
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. (Steven Levy)
So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’...
One purpose of these notebooks was to record interesting scenes, especially those involving people and emotions. As you go about town, he wrote in one of them, constantly observe, note, and consider t...
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