“Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline. Jobs” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Einstein’s brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“More than that, the iPod became the essence of everything Apple was destined to be: poetry connected to engineering, arts and creativity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — 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
“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein’s moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's… — 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
