The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best. —Foreign
The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost,
The best way to predict the future is to invent it and People who are serious about software should make their own hardware.
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year,
The day that Levy got his press preview of the iPod, he happened to be meeting Bill Gates at a dinner, and he showed it to him. Have you seen this yet? Levy asked. Levy noted, Gates went into a zone t...
The idea that John Lasseter pitched was called Toy Story.
The job of art is to chase ugliness away. Bono
The maker culture in America, ever since the days of community barn raisers and quilting bees, often involved do-it-ourselves rather than do-it-yourself.
The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind. iTunes
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 only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, he said. I don’t mean that in a small way. I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of or...
The tale of their teamwork is important because we don’t often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.
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 year before, 279,000 Apple IIs were sold, compared to 240,000 IBM PCs and its clones.
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...
This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of ‘free speech,’ not ‘free beer.’ For
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute,
When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau Inn refused her a room. So Einstein invited her to stay at his house on Mercer Street, in what was a deep...
When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair,
When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don’t matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off, Jobs said. Larry Page felt the same: The best leaders are those with the deepest understand...
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