Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs'… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Everything you’ve ever done in your life is shit,” Jobs said, “so why don’t you come work for me?” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun,… — 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
Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably… — 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
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