Deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him, I heard from him every now and then. At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homa...
Cassette tape, no mouse, and minimal graphics. Unlike Jobs, he
As to the current or future directions of Apple’s product designs, nor do other design firms we might deal with, so it is possible to inadvertently design similar looking products. It is in both Apple...
And was again willing to embrace flamboyant, eccentric, and artistic free
And she had been unable to have any. So by 1955, after nine years of marriage, they were looking to adopt a child.
Always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics, he said. Then I read something
A prim and proper lady who sat up front who had been, I was later told, President Eisenhower’s personal pilot when she was a male,
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.
Whoever accustoms himself to pass over in silence the faults of his neighbors shall meet with much better quarter from the world when he happens to fall into a mistake himself.14
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.3
When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence. Invention implies contr...
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 he was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on the cover of Time, and
When Jobs saw the corporate fitness center, he was astonished that executives had an area, with its own whirlpool, separate from that of the regular employees.
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.
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?’
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.
Use for yourself little, he said, but give to others much.26