That started an exchange about the early history
That spring Larry Ellison saw Amelio at a party and introduced him to the technology journalist Gina Smith, who asked how Apple was doing. You know, Gina, Apple is like a ship, Amelio answered. That s...
Suddenly Einstein jumped up. What are you doing? he demanded. Are you boiling the liver in water? Mrs. Frank allowed that was indeed what she was doing. The boiling-point of water is too low, Einstein...
Steve Jobs’s attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them away for free, and he was a Zen devotee who ma...
Spacewar highlighted three aspects of the hacker culture that became themes of the digital age. First, it was created collaboratively. We were able to build it together, working as a team, which is ho...
Sometimes innovation is a matter of timing. A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.
Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general-purpose computer were women: Despite our coming of age in an...
Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins with the exhortation O for a Muse of...
Search the phrase the man who invented on Amazon and you get 1,860 book results. But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today’s...
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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.’
Power to the people was a romantic lie, he later said. Computers did more than politics did to change society.
Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Dozens of the colleagues whom Jobs most abused ended their litany of horror storie...
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.
Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin. Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his l...
Packaging can be theater, it can create a story. Ive,
PRAISE FOR WALTER ISAACSON’S Steve Jobs This biography is essential reading. —The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide A superbly told story of a superbly lived life. —The Wall Street Journal Enthrallin...