Seemed a bit odd. I didn’t yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published...
See God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.
Rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. Why
Responded with a presidential note describing how Washington defined a base. Work on the new facility was halted,
Relented, but it left Hertzfeld with a bad taste. When his leave was coming to an end, Hertzfeld made an appointment to have dinner with Jobs, and they walked from his office to an Italian restaurant...
Regard for reason and nature, its social consciousness, its progressivism, its tolerance, its cosmopolitanism, and its bland philanthropy. He
Men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of the desire for wisdom, which is the sustenance and truly dependable wealth of the mind.
Medical leave. I confessed to her that when he had
Loved music. The music players that were already on the market, he told his colleagues, truly sucked. Phil Schiller, Jon Rubinstein, and the rest of the team agreed. As they were building iTunes, they...
Love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost much, he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. It was the original vision for App...
Late 1986, Jobs flew to New York to accompany Mona to it. They grew increasingly close, though their friendship had the complexities that might be expected, considering who they were and how they had...
Inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology,
If you suggested to people what the right thing to do would be, they would be smart enough to pick it up and do it,
He was more comfortable exploring practical thoughts and real-life situations than metaphysical abstractions or deductive proofs. The
Executive. KOBUN CHINO. A St Zen master in California who became Jobs’s
Diagnosed with the disease. 2 The firm changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and moved
Designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.
Delight, Akers replied, How would you like to help us? Within a few weeks Jobs showed up at IBM’s Armonk,
Decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised
Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be