At different times in the past, there were companies that exemplified Silicon Valley. It was Hewlett-Packard for a long time. Then, in the semiconductor era, it was Fairchild and Intel. I think that i...
At first Leonardo’s procrastination led to amusing tales, such as the time the church prior became frustrated and complained to Ludovico. He wanted him never to lay down his brush, as if he were a lab...
At the end of the 1940s, when it was becoming clear to him that the effort to control nuclear weaponry would fail, Einstein was asked what the next war would look like. I do not know how the Third Wor...
Bob Dylan The only time Jobs can ever recall being tongue-tied was in the presence of Bob Dylan. He was playing near Palo Alto in October 2004, and Jobs was recovering from his first cancer surgery. D...
Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, and it became deeply ingrained in his personality. Steve is very much Zen, said Kottke. It wa...
But the biggest news that month was the departure from Apple, yet again, of its cofounder, Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was then quietly working as a midlevel engineer in the Apple II division, serving as a...
CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving
Caring deeply about someone who seemed incapable of caring was a particular kind of hell that she wouldn’t wish on anyone, she said. They
Every six months he would take most of his team on a two-day retreat at a nearby resort.
Everyone must, from time to time, make a sacrifice on the altar of stupidity, to please the deity and mankind.
From the earliest days at Apple, I realized that we thrived when we created intellectual property. If people copied or stole our software, we’d be out of business. If it weren’t protected, there’d be...
He never trusted Jobs with a key to the stockroom.
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 replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn’t. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and
He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. People like you and me never grow ol...
He tried to maintain a middle ground between those who were reflexively anti-American and those who were reflexively anti-Soviet.
He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company.
He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.
Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but
Hired by Jobs in 2000
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