Silicon Valley The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.
Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.
Rather than try to conform, he made a point of being different, dressing and carrying himself as a dandy.
ROBERT IGER. Succeeded Eisner as Disney CEO in 2005. JONATHAN JONY IVE. Chief designer at Apple, became Jobs’s partner and confidant. ABDULFATTAH JOHN JANDALI. Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsi...
Para Leonardo, haber nacido fuera del matrimonio propició que no tuviera que ser enviado a una de las «escuelas de latín» que enseñaban los clásicos y las humanidades a los aspirantes a profesionales...
One person who encouraged the denizens of the counterculture
Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation.
Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell
Neglect is a form of abuse, she once scrawled on the wall of the hallway to their bedroom. She was entranced by him, but she was also baffled by how uncaring he could be. She would later recall how in...
NeXT computer or Pixar movie,
Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
My parents were very open with me about that, he recalled.
Most of Leonardo’s drawings for Pacioli’s book, which was finished in 1498, are variations of the five shapes known as Platonic solids. These are polyhedrons that have the same number of faces meeting...
More than that, the iPod became the essence of everything Apple was destined to be: poetry connected to engineering, arts and creativity intersecting with technology, design that’s bold and simple.
Man’s knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition.
Lost time is never found again.27
Lightning bolts went off in my head, according to Jobs. I remember running into the house, crying.
Lasseter, August 1997: His cherubic face and demeanor masked an artistic perfectionism
Jobs had perfected the art of turning product launches into theatrical productions,
I’m a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight.’