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...
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...
That seemed a bit odd. I didn’t yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way
Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry, Larry Ellison said. There are cars people are proud to have—Porsche, Ferrari, Prius—because what I drive says something about me. People fe...
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...
Stanford commencement address; Andy Behrendt, Apple Computer Mogul’s Roots Tied to Green Bay, (Green Bay) Press Gazette, Dec. 4, 2005; Georgina Dickinson, Dad Waits for Jobs to iPhone, New York Post a...
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.
So, in 1748 at age 42—which would turn out to be precisely the midpoint of his life—he retired and turned over the operation of his printing business to his foreman, David Hall.
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...
STEPHEN WOZNIAK. The star electronics geek at Homestead High; Jobs figured out how to package and market his amazing circuit
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...
Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles
People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
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...
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...
Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully.
No, that’s not right, Ferris replied. The lines should be voluptuous, like a Ferrari.
Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space—I