It is clear that Leonardo was charming and attractive and had many friends. His disposition was so lovable that he commanded everyone’s affection, according to Vasari. He was so pleasing in conversati...
Is to read things that are not yet on the page. Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place...
Interviews with more than a hundred family members,
Intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured
If you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
Horses and ride them, he told Jobs. You guys are the ones I’m betting on, so you figure it out. Perot brought to NeXT something that was almost as valuable as his $20 million lifeline: He was a quotab...
His thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing, Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty. That held true for Jobs in his thirties, during the decade that began with his ouster...
His kitchen: Coming back after seven months in Indian villages,
Himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance
Her that when he had first raised the idea, I hadn’t known he was sick. Almost nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping...
He was practical about what he wanted in a wife. Deborah was rather plain, but she offered the prospect of comfort and domesticity.
Have helped me make corrections or clear a few things up. And as always, I am most deeply indebted to my wife, Cathy, for her editing, suggestions, wise counsel, and so very much more.
Had the rights to make all the sequels and exploit the characters. I made a presentation that said, here’s the 15% of Pixar that Disney does not already own. So that’s
Graphics for the Mac intosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer...
Fifteen or so students who met in the company cafeteria on Tuesday nights. They would get an engineer from one of the labs to come and talk about what he was working on, Jobs recalled. My dad would dr...
Economies in the twenty-first century. I asked Jobs why he wanted me to be the one to write his
Didn’t care to make their product perfect, they were a bozo. At the West Coast Computer Faire
Deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him,
Decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advance. It’s your book, he said. I won’t even read it....
Crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. —Apple’s Think Different commercial, 1997