Jobs flew down to have lunch with Eisner, who was stunned at his audacity. They had a three-picture deal, and Pixar had made only one. Each side had its own nuclear weapons.
It was a very big moment that’s burned into my mind. When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that. I will never forget that moment. This discover...
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company.
He and Egan also spoke for hours on the phone many nights. One topic they wrestled with was his belief, which came from his Buddhist studies, that it was important to avoid attachment to material obje...
Calling himself an old-time believer in democracy, he again made clear that his socialist sentiments did not make him sympathetic to Soviet-style controls. All true democrats must stand guard lest the...
But for the time being the personality clashes were manageable, mainly because the company was doing so well.
Baby You’re a Rich Man
Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter...
Things, by removing the superfluous. The G4 Cube was almost ostentatious
Summer of 1989, he asked her to marry him. She couldn’t do it. It would drive her crazy, she told friends. She had grown up in a volatile household, and her relationship with Jobs bore too many simila...
Production
Needed to be uncomplicated enough that a stoned freshman
Daughter Lisa (A Regular Guy), and her father Abdulfattah Jandali (The Lost Father). ALVY RAY SMITH. A cofounder of Pixar who clashed with Jobs. BURRELL SMITH. Brilliant, troubled hardware designer on
Caso de John Atanasoff, el olvidado inventor de Iowa, la concepción de la idea es solo el primer paso. Lo que importa realmente es la ejecución.
Assessing Ronald Reagan. There are so many basic questions that even his friends cannot quite figure out, such as (to start with the most basic one): Was he smart? From the brilliant-versus-clueless q...
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa. They
Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicit...
When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him.
What Einstein appreciated in Mozart and Bach was the clear architectural structure that made their music seem deterministic and, like his own favorite scientific theories, plucked from the universe ra...
There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he would go, Did you think of this? said Fadell. And then we'd all go, Holy...