Knowledge, he realized, was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue.
Jobs lembrou-se do incidente vividamente porque foi a primeira vez que percebeu que seu pai não sabia tudo.
I’m not sure, Atkinson replied. Maybe six months. It was a wildly optimistic assessment, but also a motivating one.
It’s a testament to Isaacson’s skill as a biographer that readers can at last obtain the picture of Steve Jobs as a human being rather than a legend . . . anyone who’s ever wondered how so very much a...
It is 1958, he began. IBM passes up a chance to buy a young fledgling company that has invented a new technology called xerography. Two years later, Xerox was born, and IBM has been kicking themselves...
Indeed, most of their letters mixed romantic effusions with scientific enthusiasms, often with an emphasis on the latter.
In the early summer of 2004, I got a
In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
In his logbook, Kline recorded, in a memorably minimalist notation, 22:30. Talked to SRI Host to Host. CSK.
In 1967 Kilby and his team produced almost what Haggerty envisioned. It could do only four tasks (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) and was a bit heavy (more than two pounds) and not very cheap ($1...
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. This
If Apple is going to succeed, he told me, we’re going to win on innovation. And you can’t win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate to customers. When
I wanted to buy it because I was really into computer graphics, Jobs recalled. I realized they were way ahead of others in combining art and technology, which is what I’ve always been interested in.
I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits.
I remember him telling me that engineering was the highest level of importance you could reach in the world, Steve Wozniak later recalled. It takes society to a new level.
I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking, Jobs later recalled. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the t...
I had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time’s editors and extol his new Macintosh.
I ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with him.
I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.
I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, he answered, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.20