Is to read things that are not yet on the page. Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place...
I had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
How the ability to make connections across disciplines—arts and sciences, humanities and technology—is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius.
Horses and ride them, he told Jobs. You guys are the ones I’m betting on, so you figure it out. Perot brought to NeXT something that was almost as valuable as his $20 million lifeline: He was a quotab...
His thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing, Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty. That held true for Jobs in his thirties, during the decade that began with his ouster...
His kitchen: Coming back after seven months in Indian villages,
Her that when he had first raised the idea, I hadn’t known he was sick. Almost nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for cancer, and he was still keeping...
He dropped my abrupt contradiction style of argument and put on the humbler enquirer of the Socratic method.
He never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.
Have helped me make corrections or clear a few things up. And as always, I am most deeply indebted to my wife, Cathy, for her editing, suggestions, wise counsel, and so very much more.
Graphics for the Mac intosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer...
For New Year’s, with Powell and Mona Simpson taking turns staying at home with Jobs in Palo Alto.
Executive. KOBUN CHINO. A St Zen master in California who became Jobs’s
Didn’t care to make their product perfect, they were a bozo. At the West Coast Computer Faire
Designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.
Crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. —Apple’s Think Different commercial, 1997
But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
Better negotiating position in a year, after Pixar finished Finding Nemo. Yesterday we saw for the second time the new Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, that comes out next May, he wrote. This will be a real...
Became one of the first fifty employees at Atari, working as a technician for $5 an hour. In retrospect, it was
Applause. I’m very excited, Jobs said. I’m looking forward to get to reknow