It is a glorious feeling to discover the unity of a set of phenomena that seem at first to be completely separate,
Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.
Internet services at Apple, Jobs’s wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA ANDY CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER....
Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground. Instead of having a single cause, the great advances of 1937 came from a combination of capabilities, ideas, and needs that coincided in multi...
Innovation is most vibrant in the realms where open-source systems compete with proprietary ones. Sometimes
Innovation happens in stages.
In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the top executives at the New York Times; and executives at Time, Fortune,...
In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new prod...
In the 1980s I thrilled to the static and screech that modems made when they opened for you the weirdly magical realm of online services and bulletin boards,
In other words, the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers. In
In fact, these terms devised by Franklin are the ones we still use today, along with other neologisms that he coined to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor.
In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atanasoff shows, conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution. Jobs and...
In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance.
In September 1998, one month after they met with Bechtolsheim, Page and Brin incorporated their company, opened a bank account, and cashed his check. On the wall of the garage they put up a whiteboard...
If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,
If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
If the object were to have feelings, these would be based on its desire to fulfill its essence. The purpose of a glass, for example, is to hold water; if it had feelings, it would be happy when full a...
Ideas are often generated in physical gathering places where people with diverse interests encounter one another serendipitously. That is why Steve Jobs liked his buildings to have a central atrium an...
I was originally supposed to become an engineer, he later wrote a friend, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a b...
I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it’s inside the box. A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody’s going to see it. In an interview...