He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face.
He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean.
He prescribed Euclidean geometry, followed by a dose of trigonometry and algebra. That should cure anyone, they both thought, from having too many artistic or romantic passions.
He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe, Joanna Hoffman said. It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and...
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If...
He had launched his Think Different campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating.
He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint, she noted. He knew the equations that most people didn’t know: Things led to their opposites.
He also had a trait, so common among innovators, that was charmingly described by his biographer Andrew Hodges: Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.
Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, a...
HOLT. Chain-smoking Marxist hired by Jobs in 1976 to be the electrical engineer on the Apple II. ROBERT IGER. Succeeded Eisner as Disney
Greg Calhoun, who became close to Jobs right after college, saw another effect.
Grace Hopper develops first computer compiler.
God is all wise, all good, all powerful, he posited. Therefore, everything that exists or happens is with his consent. What He consents to must be good, because He is good; therefore evil doth not exi...
Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.
Gates was the prime example of the innovator’s personality. An innovator is probably a fanatic, somebody who loves what they do, works day and night, may ignore normal things to some degree and theref...
From the earliest days at Apple, I realized that we thrived when we created intellectual property. If people copied or stole our software, we’d be out of business. If it weren’t protected, there’d be...
For the generation that’s grown up in a world where computers are the norm, smartphones feel like fifth limbs and music comes from the Internet rather than record and CD stores, Steve Jobs is must-rea...
Florence flourished in the fifteenth century because it was comfortable with such people. Above all, Leonardo’s relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instillin...
Finally, on the day that he was scheduled to make the big announcement, Amelio called Jobs in. He needed an answer. Steve, do you just want
Ferrentino into separate classes. The teacher for the advanced class was a spunky woman named Imogene Hill, known as Teddy, and she became, Jobs said, one of the saints of my life. After watching