Served as CEO of two public companies, even temporarily, and I wasn’t even sure it was legal. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was enjoying spending more time with my family. I was torn. I knew Ap...
See God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.
Real? Terrell confirmed that it was, and the store agreed to front Jobs the parts on thirty-day credit. Garage Band The Jobs house in Los Altos became the assembly point for the fifty Apple I boards t...
Que se convertiría en otro ejemplo de cómo la financiación pública de la investigación especulativa se amortiza a la larga cientos de veces en aplicaciones prácticas.
Published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction
Project aside for a while. Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his sister, the writer Mona Simpson. His wife and their...
Progress, the concept that individuals, and humanity in general, move forward and improve based on a steady increase of knowledge and the wisdom that comes from conquering adversity.
Potential customers, but also at Apple’s own employees: We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. That was the genesis of that campaign...
Pleaded every day with Jobs and found it enormously frustrating that I just couldn’t connect with him. The fights almost ruined their friendship. That’s not how cancer works, Levinson insisted when Jo...
Playing juvenile pranks. In twelfth grade he built an electronic metronome—one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class—and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels...
Order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
Nowadays sound embarrassing. Jobs wanted Apple to become a wonderful consumer products company, Sculley wrote. This was a lunatic plan. . . . Apple would never be a consumer products company. . . . We...
Nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for
More emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality.
Intention. I am grateful to those who have been forgiving of my lapses
Intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured
In 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa....
His dad putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them. He watched with fascination as his father tried to get a waveform line on
Himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance
He was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.