CONTENTS Epigraph Characters Introduction: How This Book Came to Be CHAPTER ONE Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen CHAPTER TWO Odd Couple: The Two Steves CHAPTER THREE The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In . . ....
CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the
Chain-smoking Marxist hired by Jobs in 1976 to be the electrical
Chief engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back.
Clara, however, loved San Francisco, and in 1952 she convinced her husband to move back there.
Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western
Computers today are brilliant idiots,
Concepts have meaning only if we can point to objects to which they refer and to the rules by which they are assigned to these objects.85 In other words, for a concept to make sense you need an operat...
Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘Wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas. So
Cuando Einstein se sentía bloqueado mientras trabajaba en la relatividad general, cogía su violín y tocaba música de Mozart hasta que volvía a conectar con lo que él denominaba la «armonía de las esfe...
Cutting the cake in the shape of Half Dome with Laurene and his daughter from a previous relationship,
De hecho, se estableció una relación simbiótica entre la aparición de la radio de transistores y la irrupción del rock and roll. La primera grabación comercial de Elvis Presley, «That’s All Right», sa...
Despite his new fame and fortune, he still fancied himself a child of the counterculture. On a visit to a Stanford class, he took off his Wilkes Bashford blazer and his shoes, perched on top of a tabl...
Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard’s sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul of an acquisitive capitalist. I would rather have it said, h...
Digital Revolution The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s biographical story of the pioneers of the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a gu...
During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.
ERIN JOBS. Middle child of Laurene Powell and Steve Jobs. EVE JOBS. Youngest child of Laurene and Steve. PATTY JOBS. Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs two years after they adopted Steve. PAUL REINHOLD JO...
Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan...
Early in April 1933, the German government passed a law declaring that Jews (defined as anyone with a Jewish grandparent) could not hold an official position, including at the Academy or at the univer...
Eckert, with his passion for detail and perfection, was the chief engineer. Eckert became so dedicated to the project that he would sometimes sleep next to the machine. Once, as a joke, two engineers...
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