And was again willing to embrace flamboyant, eccentric, and artistic free spirits.
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.)
A cette incroyable capacité à inventer des gadgets dont on n’a pas besoin et sans lesquels, brusquement, on ne peut plus vivre.
You’re better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.
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.
Yet Jobs knew that he could manipulate Sculley by encouraging his belief that they were so alike. And the more he manipulated Sculley, the more contemptuous of him he became.
Woz’s father taught him something else that became ingrained in his childlike, socially awkward personality:
Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away, and Jobs would figure out how to make it user-friendly, put it together in a package...
Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers,
While painting The Last Supper, Leonardo would sometimes stare at the work for an hour, finally make one small stroke, and then leave. He told Duke Ludovico that creativity requires time for ideas to...
When you help build something, you own it, you’re vested in it. That’s far more rewarding than having it handed down to you.111
When shown his office, he was asked what equipment he might need. A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils, he replied. Oh yes, and a large wastebasket, so I can throw away all my mistakes.
When one reporter asked him immediately afterward why the machine was going to be so late, Jobs replied, It’s not late. It’s five years ahead of its time. As
When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II,
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I made my deal with God or whatever, which was that I
When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that.
When I look into most people’s eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone.
When Einstein was stymied while working out General Relativity, he would pull out his violin and play Mozart until he could reconnect to what he called the harmony of the spheres.
Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned someth...
Week, July 31, 2000; Tim Cook, Auburn commencement address, May 14, 2010; Adam Lashinsky, The Genius behind Steve, Fortune, Nov. 10, 2008; Nick Wingfield, Apple’s No. 2 Has Low Profile, Wall Street Jo...