“Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Laurene Powell, said bluntly, “If you’re ever going to do a book on Steve, you’d better do it now.” He had just… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to "impute" - to understand that people do judge a book by its cover -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he’d ever read any of my books. Maybe… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. The quote he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Close to forty thousand Germans gathered in front of Berlin’s opera house on May 10, 1933, as a parade of swastika-wearing students… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“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,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called " The Top 100." They were picked based on… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . . But this… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
