This biography is essential reading. —The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide A superbly told story of a superbly lived life.
Thirty years after Apple went public, he reflected on what it was like to come into money suddenly:I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. A...
They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That’s what I’ve always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.
They got an apartment in the Sunset District facing the Pacific, just south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a repo man,
There have been, of course, many other insatiable polymaths, and even the Renaissance produced other Renaissance Men. But none painted the Mona Lisa, much less did so at the same time as producing uns...
The thing that Von Neumann had, which I’ve noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that’s important.
The tale of their teamwork is important because we don’t often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.
The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.
The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had been told that Eddington was one of them. The...
The satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting.
The result would be random little lurches that would result in what is known as a random walk. The best way for us to envision this is to imagine a drunk who starts at a lamppost and lurches one step...
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste,
The next morning the 2,600-seat auditorium was mobbed. Jobs arrived in a double-breasted blue blazer, a starched white shirt, and a pale green bow tie. This is the most important moment in my entire l...
The new Pennsylvania Fireplaces, as he called them, were initially somewhat popular, at £5 apiece, and papers around the colonies were filled with testimonials. They ought to be called, both in justic...
The first rule for such a situation is to make decisions like an engineer, based on technical merit rather than personal considerations. It was a way of getting people to trust me, Torvalds explained....
The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations, he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. The conduct of the German intellectual...
The creation of a triangular relationship among government, industry, and academia was, in its own way, one of the significant innovations that helped produce the technological revolution of the late...
The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them.
The Macintosh experience taught me that A players like to work only with other A players, which means you can’t indulge B players.
The Industrial Revolution was based on two grand concepts that were profound in their simplicity. Innovators came up with ways to simplify endeavors by breaking them into easy, small tasks that could...