It’s a testament to Isaacson’s skill as a biographer that readers can at last obtain the picture of Steve Jobs as a human being rather than a legend . . . anyone who’s ever wondered how so very much a...
It would be better to miss than to turn out the wrong thing.
It was then I realized that I do give a shit about Apple—I started it and it is a good thing to have in the world.
It is 1958, he began. IBM passes up a chance to buy a young fledgling company that has invented a new technology called xerography. Two years later, Xerox was born, and IBM has been kicking themselves...
Initiates were required to stand, lay their hand on their breast, and answer properly four questions: Do you have disrespect for any current member? Do you love mankind in general regardless of religi...
Indeed, most of their letters mixed romantic effusions with scientific enthusiasms, often with an emphasis on the latter.
In the seventy years since von Neumann effectively placed his Draft Report on the EDVAC into the public domain, the trend for computers has been, with a few notable exceptions, toward a more proprieta...
In the early summer of 2004, I got a
In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone.
In his competition with Bradford, Franklin had one big disadvantage. Bradford was the postmaster of Philadelphia, and he used that position to deny Franklin the right, at least officially, to send his...
In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. Other...
In 1482, the year he turned thirty, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence for Milan, where he would end up spending the next seventeen years.
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. This
If you reveal TMI, it can make people feel a little less alone.
If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake, he said. Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no...
I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money,...
I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits.
I think you still have to think differently to buy an Apple computer, he said. The people who buy them do think different. They are the creative spirits in this world, and they’re out to change the wo...
I ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with him.
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation