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How This Book Came to Be
His product comes with an interesting feature called incompatibility, Gates told the Washington Post. It doesn’t run any of the existing software. It’s a super-nice computer. I don’t think if I went o...
His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we’ve outgrown our wonder years.
His fingerprints are all over today’s technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.
Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but
He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.
He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company.
He tried to maintain a middle ground between those who were reflexively anti-American and those who were reflexively anti-Soviet.
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 replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn’t. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and
He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn’t. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs.
He never trusted Jobs with a key to the stockroom.
He never really cared too much about mechanical things.
He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted were at times astonishi...
He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feat...
He did it better because Steve had challenged him, said Atkinson,
Gates’s Letter to Hobbyists, complaining about the unauthorized sharing of Microsoft BASIC, asked in a chiding way, Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? Torvalds found that an odd outlo...
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...
From Mike Markkula he had learned the importance of packaging and presentation. People do judge a book by its cover, so for the box of the Macintosh, Jobs chose a full-color design and kept trying to...