One day in the fall of 2010 he was wistfully going through a box of old snapshots with me, and paused over one that showed him visiting Lisa when she was young. I probably didn’t go over there enough,...
On occasion Jobs would use the semi-abandoned Woodside home, especially its swimming pool, for family parties. When Bill Clinton was president, he and Hillary Clinton stayed in the 1950s ranch house o...
On a trip to London with Jobs, Ive had the thankless task of choosing the hotel. He picked the Hempel, a tranquil five- star boutique hotel with a sophisticated minimalism that he thought Jobs would l...
On October 29 the connection was ready to be made. The event was appropriately casual. It had none of the drama of the one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind that had occurred on the moon...
Occasionally Leonardo appended a moral lesson to the entry, such as this: The oyster, when the moon is full, opens itself wide, and when the crab looks in he throws in a stone or seaweed and the oyste...
NeXT, became chief hardware engineer at Apple in 1997. MIKE SCOTT. Brought in by Markkula to be Apple’s president
Microsoft’s success represented an aesthetic flaw in the way the universe worked. The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, he later said. I don’t mean...
Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages. He was also gloomy in an interview with Tony Perkins and the editors of Red Herring. First, h...
Loyalty to a party, Einstein felt, meant surrendering some independence of thought. Such conformity confounded him. How an intelligent man can subscribe to a party I find a complete mystery,
Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born In the Homestead High yearbook, 1972
Like many who lived through the war, they had experienced enough excitement that, when it was over, they desired simply to settle down, raise a family, and lead a less eventful life.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 19301
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 question it—t...
Leonardo’s optics experiments produced discoveries that would not be rediscovered for another century.23 In addition, they were important in honing his ability to match theory with experiment, and the...
Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man embodies a moment when art and science combined to allow mortal minds to probe timeless questions about who we are and how we fit into the grand order of the universe. It also...
Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can understand, even take lessons from. It was based on skills we can aspire to improve...
Leonardo fue pionero en un nuevo estilo que trataba los cuadros narrativos, e incluso los retratos, como explicaciones psicológicas.
Laurene Powell, said bluntly, If you’re ever going to do a book on Steve, you’d better do it now. He had just taken a second
Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. Apple has b...
Lasseter and his Pixar team had the first half of the movie ready to screen by November 1993, so they brought it down to Burbank to show to Katzenberg and other Disney executives. Peter Schneider, the...