When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence.
When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don’t matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off, Jobs said. Larry Page felt the same: The best leaders are those with the deepest understand...
When the design was finally locked in, Jobs called the Macintosh team together for a ceremony. Real artists sign their work, he said. So he got out a sheet of drafting paper and a Sharpie pen and had...
When people take insights from multiple sources and put them together, it’s natural for them to think that the resulting ideas are their own—as
When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair,
When he was turning thirty, Jobs
When Jobs was losing his footing at Apple in the summer of 1985, he went for a walk with Alan Kay, who had been at Xerox PARC and was then an Apple Fellow. Kay knew that Jobs was interested in the int...
What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's been done by others before us. I didn't invent the language or mathematics...
What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely? Einstein asked. I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions.
Wentworth arrived in Paris in mid-December, just as the Americans were meeting with Vergennes, and sent a missive worthy of a British spy: a gentleman who wished to meet him, it said, could be found t...
We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.23
We believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone, Jobs declared in an email to a customer. Folks who want porn can buy an Android.
Una de sus máximas clave relativas a la inversión era apostar por la gente más que por la idea.
Tribble said that Jobs would not accept any contrary facts. The best way to describe the situation is a term from Star Trek, Tribble explained. Steve
Torvalds decided to use the GNU General Public License, not because he fully embraced the free-sharing ideology of Stallman (or for that matter his own parents) but because he thought that letting hac...
Tin Toy went on to win the 1988 Academy Award for animated short films, the first computer-generated film to do so. To celebrate, Jobs took Lasseter and his team to Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in...
Tim Cook When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and produced the Think Different ads and the iMac in his first year, it confirmed what most people already knew: that he could be creative and a visionary. H...
Throughout her life, she excelled at being able to translate scientific problems—such as those involving trajectories, fluid flows, explosions, and weather patterns—into mathematical equations and the...
This was fortunate. He would have made a poor notary: he got bored and distracted too easily, especially when a project became routine rather than creative.14
This exposed an aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked: The best and most innovative products don’t always win.