The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost, Arthur Rock later said. The theory, shared by many, is that the tough love made him wiser and more mature. But it’s n...
Rμv– 1/2 gμv R = 8πTμv The left side of the equation starts with the term Rμv, which is the Ricci tensor he had embraced earlier. The term gμv is the all-important metric tensor, and the term R is the...
Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; and that when Truth and Error have fair play, the form...
People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity.
Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called The Top 100. They were picked based on a simple guideline: the people you would bring if you could take only a hundred...
Like Paul Jobs, Joanne Schieble was from a rural Wisconsin family of German heritage.
Jobs had not tempered his way of dealing with employees. He applied charm or public humiliation in a way that in most cases proved to be pretty effective, Tribble recalled. But sometimes it wasn’t. On...
It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a few months. Lennon was always my favorite Beatle. [ He laughs as Lenno...
I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery.
He was working himself up into a fervor of delight while I was shrinking into a rage and thinking, How could you
Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to impute - to understand that people do judge a book by its cover - and therefore to make sure all the trappings and packaging of Apple signaled that there was...
But what truly devastated Jobs was that he was not, after all, chosen as the Man of the Year.
Something more finished. But Jobs stared him down, and he agreed to take delivery and pay. After thirty days Apple was on the verge of being profitable. We were able to build the boards more cheaply t...
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
The only salvation for civilization and the human race lies in the creation of world government, he said. As long as sovereign states continue to have armaments and armaments secrets, new world wars w...
One method that Einstein employed to help people visualize this notion was to begin by imagining two-dimensional explorers on a two-dimensional universe, like a flat surface. These flatlanders can wan...
Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example
Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. There's a temptation in our networked...
Bell Labs showed how sustained innovation could occur when people with a variety of talents were brought together,
Apple launched the Lisa in January 1983—a full year before the Mac was ready—and Jobs paid his $5,000 wager to Couch. Even though he was not part of the Lisa team, Jobs went to New York to do publicit...