«Hacer lo imposible es bastante divertido», declaró en una ocasión Walt Disney.
«El viaje es la recompensa», rezaba.
«Decidir qué es lo que no se debe hacer es tan importante como decidir qué se debe hacer
«Decidir lo que no hay que hacer es tan importante como decidir lo que hay que hacer.»
«Bueno, Steve, me parece que hay más de una forma de verlo. Yo diría más bien que es como si ambos tuviésemos un vecino rico llamado Xerox y, cuando yo me colé en su casa para robar el televisor, desc...
Would haggle for switches, resistors, capacitors, and sometimes the latest memory chips. His father used to do that for auto parts, and he succeeded because he knew the value of each better than the c...
Would come in after Lang and others had left and work through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On
Worth at $872 million.
Won his wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that lasted until death parted them
With all his faults and craziness, leave a deep impression. There’s humor, too . . . it’s a rich portrait of one of the greatest minds of our generation.
Which I had recently joined, and I invited him
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...
Whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him. When he was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on the cover of Time, and soon thereafter he began offering me his...
We really fucked up the engineering on this
Was also true when it came to personal commitments. If he knew for sure a course of action was right, he was unstoppable. But if he had doubts, he sometimes withdrew, preferring not to think about thi...
Wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. The smell and behavior wasn’t an issue
Veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his reality distortion field.
Treat you like a criminal, he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob Dylan came on the screen. People want to own the music they love.
Summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product
Somewhat like the ancient Greek liar’s paradox, in which the truth of the statement This statement is false cannot be determined. (If the statement is true, then it’s also false, and vice versa.) By c...