Picasso had a saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal
People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.
Painting a conventional portrait for a pushy patron did not interest him. Nor did money motivate him. He painted portraits if the subject struck his fancy, such as the Musician, or if a powerful ruler...
One useful leadership talent is knowing when to push ahead against doubters and when to heed them.
One person who encouraged the denizens of the counterculture
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other ‘My little computer said such a funny thing this morning!’ he japed in 1951.
One aspect of innovation is inventing new devices; another is inventing popular ways to use these devices.
New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.
Most of the successful innovators and entrepreneurs in this book had one thing in common: they were product people. They cared about, and deeply understood, the engineering and design. They were not p...
Most notably, he was known for his willingness to share his blessings. He was so generous that he sheltered and fed all his friends, rich or poor, according to Vasari. He was not motivated by wealth o...
McCarthy’s vision was prescient, but it differed in one major way from Kay’s vision, and from the networked world that we have today. It was not based on personal computers with their own memory and p...
Maybe there’s a better way, a gentlemen’s club where we all wear ties and speak in this Brahmin language and velvet code-words, but I don’t know that way, because I am middle class from California.
Markkula replied that lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a compute...
MAIN CHARACTERS Cesare Borgia (c. 1475–1507). Italian warrior, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, subject of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Leonardo employer. Donato Bramante (1444–1514). Architect, fr...
Lembrar-me de que irei morrer dentro de pouco tempo é a ferramenta mais importante que já encontrei para me ajudar a fazer as grandes escolhas da vida. Porque quase tudo — todas as expectativas extern...
Laurene, Eve, Erin, and Lisa at the Corinth Canal in Greece, 2006: For young people, this
Kissinger traces the balances made in foreign policy, including that of realism and idealism, from the times of Cardinal Richelieu through chapters on Theodore Roosevelt the realist and Woodrow Wilson...
Josiah practiced the art, which his son would perfect, of marrying public virtue with private profit: he made money by selling candles to the night watchmen he oversaw.
Jobs would complain about the new generation of kids, who seemed to him more materialistic and careerist than his own. When I went to school,it was right after the sixties and before this general wave...
Jobs recalled the incident vividly because it was his first realization that his father did not know everything.