— Regardez ! J’ai dessiné un cercle ! s’exclama Warhol après avoir joué avec MacDraw.
Won’t even read it. But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn’t know it, was hit by another round of cancer complications. He stopped returning my call...
The son not of a lawyer but of a high school dropout with a passion for mechanics and his salt-of-the-earth wife who was working as a bookkeeper. Paul and Clara named their new
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Glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. At that point his voice became slightly more emphatic, excited, as if he were sitting right in front of the crowd, his
Disdainful of the Eckert-Mauchly mercenary approach. Eckert and Mauchly are a commercial group with a commercial patent policy, he complained to a friend. We cannot work with them directly or indirect...
Declined to keep licensing it out. If the platform goes closed, it is over, Kahng said. Total destruction. Closed is the kiss of death. Jobs disagreed. He telephoned Ed Woolard to say he was getting A...
Changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and moved to San Francisco. Esslinger picked the original name not merely because frogs have the ability to metamorphose, but as a salute to its...
We kind of missed the boat on that, he recalled. So we needed to catch up real fast. The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to...
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An Ameri...
Von Neumann, by contrast, wore a three-piece suit at almost all times, including on a donkey ride down the Grand Canyon; even as a student he was so well dressed that, upon first meeting him, the math...
There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and science at the beginning of the Renaissance, and again at the beginning...
The good men may do separately, he wrote, is small compared with what they may do collectively.
So starting in 1999 Apple began to produce application software for the Mac, with a focus
So Jobs and his team became excited about the prospect of building a phone that they would want to use. That’s the best motivator of all, Jobs later said.
One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, he said. That's true for companies, and it's true for products.
Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret, an early twentieth-century German-born nutrition fanatic. He
More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it...
Leonardo’s initial anatomy studies of 1489 focused on human skulls. He started with a skull that had been sawed in half, top to bottom (fig. 60). Then the front of the left half was sawed off. His gro...
Jobs had a tougher time navigating the controversies over Apple’s desire to keep tight control over which apps could be downloaded onto the iPhone and iPad. Guarding against apps that contained viruse...