Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.
And he would take me to a sushi restaurant in
Wozniak could make one of the computers he had been sketching on
Wozniak began to rankle at Jobs’s style. Steve was too tough on people. I wanted our company to feel like a family where we all had fun and shared whatever we made.
With Reed in Kenya, 2007: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I made my
Why in the world would you involve Steve in a decision like this? Amelio replied, getting angry. Steve is not even a member of the board of directors, so what the hell is he doing in any of this conve...
Who said your job was to think, spring-wiener?
When people take insights from multiple sources and put them together, it’s natural for them to think that the resulting ideas are their own—as
When he went to PARC for his formal interview, Kay was asked what he hoped his great achievement there would be. A personal computer, he answered. Asked what that was, he picked up a notebook-size por...
When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II,
What’s the difference between Apple and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect.
What is it you don’t understand about the universe? Jobs replied, I don’t understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke.
What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely? Einstein asked. I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions.
We’d buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan’s words struck chords of creative thinking.
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...
We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years, recalled Powell. We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, ‘What is the purpose of a sofa?’
We scientists in particular must foster internationalism, he said. Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this regard.41
We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Walker Photos For almost thirty years, photographer Diana Walker has had special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio.