Ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman
Every grain of sand. Joan Baez sang the mournful yet uplifting spiritual, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Each member of the family recounted a few stories or read a poem. His mind was never a captive of re...
Especially The Times They Are a-Changin.’ He had recited the second verse the day he unveiled the Macintosh to the Apple shareholders sixteen months earlier. That verse ended nicely: For the loser now...
Engineer at Apple in 1997. MIKE SCOTT. Brought in by Markkula to be Apple’s president in 1977 to try to manage Jobs.
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Elected directly by the people based on proportional representation. The House would select members of an upper chamber, the president, and the judiciary. Franklin had long favored a legislature with...
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 product tha...
Early personal computers, helped arrange Jobs’s Xerox PARC visit and his purchase of Pixar. D
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Deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him, I heard from him every now and then. At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homa...
Creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses.
Cassette tape, no mouse, and minimal graphics. Unlike Jobs, he
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And she had been unable to have any. So by 1955, after nine years of marriage, they were looking to adopt a child.
Always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics, he said. Then I read something
A prim and proper lady who sat up front who had been, I was later told, President Eisenhower’s personal pilot when she was a male,
A machine that could process and store data at a cost of only $2 per digit. (Atanasoff’s machine could handle three thousand digits and cost about $6,000.)
You read everything—that’s part of the job, he said. You accumulate all this trivia, and you hope that someday maybe a millionth of it will be useful.
Woz’s father taught him something else that became ingrained in his childlike, socially awkward personality:
Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers,