It’s best not to mess with karma. Why
It’s also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.
It is in the mind of a single person that creative ideas and concepts are born.
It is a joy for me to have a son who has inherited the main traits of my personality: the ability to rise above mere existence by sacrificing one’s self through the years for an impersonal goal.
In it he argued that unrestrained capitalism produced great disparities of wealth, cycles of boom and depression, and festering levels of unemployment. The system encouraged selfishness instead of coo...
In his excitement, Jobs began to take over the daily management of the Lisa project, which was being run by John Couch, the former HP engineer.
In collecting such a medley of ideas, Leonardo was following a practice that had become popular in Renaissance Italy of keeping a commonplace and sketch book, known as a zibaldone. But in their conten...
In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen, said Lack. He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He’s pathological, which can be useful in negotiations....
If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.
If he was displeased, he might scream and get hopping mad and use expletives, but he wouldn’t do it in a way that would totally destroy the person he was talking to. It was just his way to get the per...
I was on one of my fruitarian diets Steve Jobs recalled I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it wou...
I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody's going to see it.
I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.
I hate it when people call themselves entrepreneurs when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.
I had come to revere the Italian designers, just like the kid in Breaking Away reveres the Italian bikers, recalled Jobs, so it was an amazing inspiration.
I cried in my office as he was showing me the idea, and I still cry when I think about it.
I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer.
His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish. In fact she strongly encouraged me to be honest about his failings as well as his str...
His new idea was published that month in what became yet another seminal Einstein paper, Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity.9 On the surface, it did indeed seem to be base...
His argument was that a great engineer would be remembered only if he teamed with a great marketer, and this required him to commit his designs to the partnership.