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 believed it was our job to teach people aesthetics, to teach people what they should like,
So [Steve Jobs] had the Pixar building designed to promote encounters and unplanned collaborations ... to make people get out of their offices and mingle in the central atrium with people they might n...
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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.
REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955. REED JOBS. Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell. RON JOHNSON. Hired by Jobs in 2000 to devel...
Picasso tenía un dicho: Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban,
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin.
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 way to understand that Einstein was talking about invariance, rather than declaring everything to be relative, is to think about how far a light beam would travel in a given period of time. That d...
One sunny afternoon, when he wasn’t feeling well, Jobs sat in the garden behind his house and reflected on death. He talked about his experiences in India almost four decades earlier, his study of Bud...
One of the assistants who lived in Leonardo’s household at the time was a technician and locksmith named Giulio Tedesco, known as Jules the German, who returned to Germany around 1499 and spread Leona...
One method, which he had developed during his mock debates with John Collins in Boston and then when discoursing with Keimer, was to pursue topics through soft, Socratic queries. That became the prefe...
One evening Wozniak, who had been floating into and out of Apple for the previous two years, wandered into the Macintosh building. Jobs grabbed him and said, Come over here and look at this. He pulled...