Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,
Cutting the cake in the shape of Half Dome with Laurene and his daughter from a previous relationship, Lisa Brennan.
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...
Cook reduced the number of Apple’s key suppliers from a hundred to twenty-four, forced them to cut better deals to keep the business, convinced many to locate next to Apple’s plants, and closed ten of...
Compromisers may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies.
Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western
C. P. Snow was right about the need to respect both of the two cultures, science and the humanities. But even more important today is understanding how they intersect. Those who helped lead the techno...
By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped the what-next list on his whiteboard that year.
But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today’s technology revolution was fashioned.
But the main lesson to draw from the birth of computers is that innovation is usually a group effort, involving collaboration between visionaries and engineers, and that creativity comes from drawing...
Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became close. She wrote novels loosely based on her mother Joanne (Anywhere but Here), Jobs and his daughter Lisa (A Regu...
Because a lot of people think they’re crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.
Be curious, relentlessly curious. I have no special talents, Einstein once wrote to a friend. I am just passionately curious.4 Leonardo actually did have special talents, as did Einstein, but his dist...
Back in 1917, when Einstein had analyzed the cosmological considerations arising from his general theory of relativity, most astronomers thought that the universe consisted only of our Milky Way, floa...
Babbage was charming when he wished, but he could also be cranky, stubborn, and defiant, like most innovators.
At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then com...
At different times in the past, there were companies that exemplified Silicon Valley. It was Hewlett-Packard for a long time. Then, in the semiconductor era, it was Fairchild and Intel. I think that i...
As he once said, Picasso had a saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal’—and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. Another
And so he calmly responded, Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.* The