Won’t Work. Apple’s former chief financial officer,
Whoever accustoms himself to pass over in silence the faults of his neighbors shall meet with much better quarter from the world when he happens to fall into a mistake himself.14
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.3
When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence. Invention implies contr...
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...
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I made my deal with God or whatever, which was that I
We try to use the talents we do have to
We saw an example of this pattern-based analysis on the theme sheet, where he made the analogy between a branching tree and the arteries in a human, one that he applied also to rivers and their tribut...
Using Hollerith’s tabulators, the 1890 census was completed in one year rather than eight. It was the first major use of electrical circuits to process information, and the company that Hollerith foun...
Turing did have a tendency toward being a loner. His homosexuality made him feel like an outsider at times; he lived alone and avoided deep personal commitments.
Timothy Leary declared that personal computers had become the new LSD and years later revised his famous mantra to proclaim, Turn on, boot up, jack in.
Thus it was that Einstein ended up deciding that quantum mechanics, though it may not be wrong, was at least incomplete. There must be a fuller explanation of how the universe operates, one that would...
Thus did Ada, Countess of Lovelace, help sow the seeds for a digital age that would blossom a hundred years later.
This is largely because he felt it was futile to wrestle with theological questions about which he had no empirical evidence and thus no rational basis for forming an opinion. Thunderbolts from heaven...
Think Different campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating.
They developed not merely modest product advances based on focus groups, but whole new devices and services that consumers did not yet know they needed.
There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution,
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...
There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
There can be something he knows absolutely nothing about, and because of his crazy style and utter conviction, he can convince people that he knows what he’s talking about,