Jobs quickly became bored with college. He liked being at Reed, just not taking the required classes.
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James Vincent, Jony Ive, Lee Clow, Avie Tevanian, Jon Rubinstein. Lev Grossman, How Apple Does It, Time, Oct. 16, 2005; Leander Kahney, How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong, Wired,...
I’m about fifty-fifty on believing in God, he said. For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overest...
It would be better to miss than to turn out the wrong thing.
It was not merely intelligence that she saw. Years later she liked to show off a
It was a self-fulfilling distortion, she claimed. You did the impossible, because you didn’t realize it was impossible.
It is very important to note, however, that the theory of relativity does not mean that everything is relative. It does not mean that everything is subjective. Instead,
It is a joy for me to have a son who has inherited the main traits of my personality: the ability to rise above mere existence by sacrificing one’s self through the years for an impersonal goal.
It conjured up memories of what he sounded like when he was young, and how, as in his favorite Dylan song, he had remained forever young. They push the human race forward
In it he argued that unrestrained capitalism produced great disparities of wealth, cycles of boom and depression, and festering levels of unemployment. The system encouraged selfishness instead of coo...
In his Apple office, 1982: Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, No, because customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.
In collecting such a medley of ideas, Leonardo was following a practice that had become popular in Renaissance Italy of keeping a commonplace and sketch book, known as a zibaldone. But in their conten...
In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen, said Lack. He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He’s pathological, which can be useful in negotiations....
If you reveal TMI, it can make people feel a little less alone.
If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. Mr.
If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.
I was on one of my fruitarian diets Steve Jobs recalled I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it wou...
I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody's going to see it.
I designed the Apple I because I wanted to give it away for free to other people, said Wozniak.