PAUL REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955. REED JOBS. Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell. RON JOHNSON. Hired by Jobs in 2000 to...
Only the paranoid survive.
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research...
Okay, tell me what’s wrong with this place, he said. There were some murmurings, but Jobs cut them off. It’s the products! he answered. So what’s wrong with the products? Again there were a few attemp...
No, that’s not right, Ferris replied. The lines should be voluptuous, like a Ferrari.
Most of the successful innovators and entrepreneurs in this book had one thing in common: they were product people. They cared about, and deeply understood, the engineering and design. They were not p...
Most notably, he was known for his willingness to share his blessings. He was so generous that he sheltered and fed all his friends, rich or poor, according to Vasari. He was not motivated by wealth o...
McCarthy’s vision was prescient, but it differed in one major way from Kay’s vision, and from the networked world that we have today. It was not based on personal computers with their own memory and p...
Maybe there’s a better way, a gentlemen’s club where we all wear ties and speak in this Brahmin language and velvet code-words, but I don’t know that way, because I am middle class from California.
MAIN CHARACTERS Cesare Borgia (c. 1475–1507). Italian warrior, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, subject of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Leonardo employer. Donato Bramante (1444–1514). Architect, fr...
Look longer at the picture. It vibrates with Leonardo’s understanding that no moment is discrete, self-contained, frozen, delineated, just as no boundary in nature is sharply delineated. As with the r...
Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.
Laurene, Eve, Erin, and Lisa at the Corinth Canal in Greece, 2006: For young
Jobs’s triumph was soon complete. A few weeks after
Jobs’s closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee.
Jobs seemed to have a premonition that his life would soon be changing. Perhaps the thread of his life would indeed
Jobs asked some questions about education, and Gates sketched out his vision of what schools in the future would be like, with students watching lectures and video lessons on their own while using the...
Jobs arrived
Jersey,
I’m about fifty-fifty on believing in God, he said. For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overest...