I liked the film because it was about taking risks and learning to let those you love take risks, Jobs said.
I learned electronics as a kid by messing around with old radios that were easy to tamper with because they were designed to be fixed.
I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of...
I don’t think that kids starting out with computers today get as welcome of an entry to programming as I did.
I can’t see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own, DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting where his operations committee was debating whether to create a smaller vers...
I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty, he said, at least for me.
I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis,
His scientific understanding of optics thus enhanced the three-dimensional illusion of the painting.8
His paper, titled Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits, was published in the April 1965 issue of Electronics magazine.
Hired by Jobs in 2000
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for t...
He was incredibly phony, a complete poseur... He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn't. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs.
He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the co...
He told us to go back to the roots of the original 1984 Macintosh, an all-in-one consumer appliance, recalled Schiller. That meant design and engineering had to work together.
He just started
Having outgrown its Manhattan headquarters, most of Bell Labs moved to two hundred rolling acres in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Mervin Kelly and his colleagues wanted their new home to feel like an acade...
Grace was a good man,
From his father Jobs had learned that a hallmark of passionate craftsmanship is making sure that even the aspects that will remain hidden are done beautifully. One of the most extreme—and telling—impl...
Franklin was worried that his fondness for conversation and eagerness to impress made him prone to prattling, punning and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company. Knowledge, he reali...