I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis, he later said. His intensity, however, made it diffi...
I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs
His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method deve...
Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but
He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face.
He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.14
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 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 did it better because Steve had challenged him, said Atkinson,
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 believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful
Greg Calhoun, who became close to Jobs right after college, saw another effect.
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 soutint le regard de Jobs, puis se mit à crier aussi, de sa voix de fausset : — Il y a une autre façon de voir les choses, Steve ! Xerox était notre riche voisin à tous les deux, et quand je sui...
Form follows emotion, a play on the familiar maxim that form follows function.
First and foremost is that creativty is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses.
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
Even if he didn’t profit from the options, at least he got to enjoy the airplane. Not surprisingly he fretted over how the interior would be designed. It took him more than a year. He used Ellison’s p...
Einstein’s 1905 burst of creativity was astonishing. He had devised a revolutionary quantum theory of light, helped prove the existence of atoms, explained Brownian motion, upended the concept of spac...