Above all, Leonardo’s relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to qu...
There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after.
Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: A person was either a hero or a bozo, a product was either amazing or shit
Sometimes the difference between geniuses and jerks hinges on whether their ideas turn out to be right.
Who became Jobs’s spiritual teacher. LEE CLOW. Advertising wizard who created Apple’s 1984 ad and worked with Jobs for three decades. DEBORAH DEBI COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple m...
Some people say, Give the customers what they want. But that’s not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, If I’d asked customers...
There’s an old Hindu saying that goes, ‘In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
Some of the most important technologies of our era, such as the fracking techniques developed over the past six decades for extracting natural gas, came about because of countless small innovations as...
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.
When he was engaged in blue-sky thinking, his science was not a separate endeavor from his art. Together they served his driving passion, which was nothing less than knowing everything there was to kn...
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...
Was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity,
Was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on
This exposed an aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked: The best and most innovative products don’t always win.
Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.
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)
This biography is essential reading. —The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide A superbly told story of a superbly lived life.
DEBORAH DEBI COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011. EDDY C...
So does that mean your real parents didn’t want you?
They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That’s what I’ve always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.
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