That 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
Such a leader knows how to empower groups to self-organize. When it’s done right, a governance structure by consensus naturally emerges, as happened both with Linux and Wikipedia. What astonishes so m...
States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs
So did Einstein, who wrote to another friend, You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.5 We should be careful to never outgrow our wonder y...
Shockley had the ability to visualize quantum theory, how it explained the movement of electrons, the way a choreographer can visualize a dance.
Rupert Murdoch accepta d’écouter la vision que Jobs avait de Fox News, une chaîne que le P-DG d’Apple considérait comme destructrice pour la nation et dangereuse pour la réputation de son patron. « Vo...
Raskin died of pancreatic cancer in 2005, not long after Jobs was diagnosed with the disease.
Public awareness is an important component of innovation.
Picasso had a saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal
Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good politicians. At
People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they’re talking about don...
People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
Paul e Clara Jobs eram pais amorosos e estavam dispostos a adaptar suas vidas à situação de ter um filho que era muito inteligente — e também teimoso. Eles se esforçariam muito para servi-lo, tratá-lo...
Over dinner at a Georgian restaurant that specialized in shish kebab, Jobs continued his rant.
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying. What
One of Jobs’s business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,
Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully.
On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause them to surrender the civil liberties and freedom of thought that they cher...
On his journey home from delivering his acceptance speech in Sweden the following summer, Einstein stopped in Copenhagen to see Bohr, who met him at the train station to take him home by streetcar. On...
Now he was about to launch the Macintosh, a machine that violated many of the principles of the hacker’s code: It was overpriced; it would have no slots, which meant that hobbyists could not plug in t...