The British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide
The phone, ‘You know that is not true,’ Brennan recalled. He was going to drag me
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
There, so Jobs left a message asking him to come to dinner the following evening. He would also invite the
To engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint. The product review revealed how unfocused Apple had be...
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.
Veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his reality distortion field.
Wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere,
War ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor
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...
Was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity,
Was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on
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...
Who became Jobs’s spiritual teacher. LEE CLOW. Advertising wizard who created Apple’s 1984 ad and worked with Jobs for three decades. DEBORAH DEBI COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple m...
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.
Won his wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that lasted until death parted them
Worth at $872 million.
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...
Year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused
You are interested in the history of the digital age and the emergence of digital culture, Isaacson’s book is a must read. —
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