Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.
Leibniz had little engineering skill and did not surround himself with those who did. So, like many great theorists who lacked practical collaborators, he was unable to produce reliably working versio...
Laurene, Eve, Erin, and Lisa at the Corinth Canal in Greece, 2006: For young
Jobs’s closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee.
Jobs’s closest friend at Reed, fellow pilgrim to India, early Apple employee. J
It’s one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings. I shouldn’t have. They had done so much to make sure I could go there, but I just didn’...
It is in the mind of a single person that creative ideas and concepts are born.
It is important to foster individuality, he said, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.8 This
It is a glorious feeling to discover the unity of a set of phenomena that seem at first to be completely separate,
Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.
Internet services at Apple, Jobs’s wingman in dealing with content companies. ANDREA ANDY CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER....
Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground. Instead of having a single cause, the great advances of 1937 came from a combination of capabilities, ideas, and needs that coincided in multi...
In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the top executives at the New York Times; and executives at Time, Fortune,...
In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new prod...
In the 1980s I thrilled to the static and screech that modems made when they opened for you the weirdly magical realm of online services and bulletin boards,
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 fact, these terms devised by Franklin are the ones we still use today, along with other neologisms that he coined to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor.
In September 1998, one month after they met with Bechtolsheim, Page and Brin incorporated their company, opened a bank account, and cashed his check. On the wall of the garage they put up a whiteboard...
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...
Ideas are often generated in physical gathering places where people with diverse interests encounter one another serendipitously. That is why Steve Jobs liked his buildings to have a central atrium an...