Las personas lo suficientemente locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo son las que lo cambian. (Anuncio Piensa diferente de Apple, 1997)
La conciencia pública es un componente importante de la innovación.
Jobs’s father had once taught him that a drive for perfection meant caring about the craftsmanship even of the parts unseen. Jobs applied that to the layout of the circuit board inside the Apple II. H...
Jobs seemed to have a premonition that his life would soon be changing. Perhaps the thread of his life would indeed
Jobs later said that he never read the novel. I heard it was about me, he told me, and if it was about me, I would have gotten really pissed off, and I didn’t want to get pissed at my sister, so I did...
Jobs later explained, We discussed whether it was correct before we ran it. It’s grammatical, if you think about what we’re trying to say. It’s not think the same, it’s think different. Think a little...
Jobs had spent so many afternoons. Jony Ive had arranged for the table to be brought to the graveside. There were fifty or so family members and friends in attendance,
Jobs asked some questions about education, and Gates sketched out his vision of what schools in the future would be like, with students watching lectures and video lessons on their own while using the...
Jobs arrived
Jobs also attacked America’s education system, saying that it was hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules. Until the teachers’unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education...
JONATHAN RUBY RUBINSTEIN. Worked with Jobs at NeXT, became chief hardware engineer at Apple in 1997. MIKE SCOTT. Brought in by Markkula to be Apple’s president in 1977 to try to manage Jobs. J
JOBS. Youngest child of Laurene and Steve. PATTY JOBS. Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs two years after they adopted Steve. PAUL REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clar...
I’m changing the world one keyboard at a time, he deadpanned.
It’s easy to throw stones at Microsoft. They’ve clearly fallen from their dominance. They’ve become mostly irrelevant. And yet I appreciate what they did and how hard it was. They were very good at th...
It’s also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.
It was yet another example of Jobs consciously positioning himself at the intersection of the arts and technology. In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human...
It was a sunny day, and Einstein merrily played with the telescope’s dials and instruments. Elsa came along as well, and it was explained to her that the equipment was used to determine the scope and...
It was a story filled with the most unhappy, mean characters that I’ve ever seen.
It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.
Isaacson is to be commended for explaining the genius of Jobs in fascinating fashion, launching a discussion that could reach infinity and beyond. —The Christian Science Monitor Walter Isaacson’s biog...