Rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era.
Rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. Why
Responded with a presidential note describing how Washington defined a base. Work on the new facility was halted,
Perhaps no matter how fast computers progress, artificial intelligence may never outstrip the intelligence of the human-machine partnership. Let
No formal design reviews, so there are no huge decision points. Instead, we can make the decisions fluid. Since we iterate every day and never have dumb-ass presentations, we don’t run into major disa...
Late 1986, Jobs flew to New York to accompany Mona to it. They grew increasingly close, though their friendship had the complexities that might be expected, considering who they were and how they had...
Diagnosed with the disease. 2 The firm changed its name from frogdesign to frog design in 2000 and moved
Delight, Akers replied, How would you like to help us? Within a few weeks Jobs showed up at IBM’s Armonk,
Decades. DEBORAH DEBI COLEMAN. Early Mac team manager who took over Apple manufacturing. TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in
Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be
Authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.
With Reed in Kenya, 2007: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I made my
Why in the world would you involve Steve in a decision like this? Amelio replied, getting angry. Steve is not even a member of the board of directors, so what the hell is he doing in any of this conve...
What is it you don’t understand about the universe? Jobs replied, I don’t understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke.
We’d buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan’s words struck chords of creative thinking.
Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you...
We scientists in particular must foster internationalism, he said. Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this regard.41
We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly, Pestalozzi wrote, and the learning of numbers and language must be definitely subordinated. 58
Two events which, viewed from a system of coordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be looked upon as simultaneous events when envisaged from a system which is in motion relative to that system.