“Then he began writing the software that would get the microprocessor to display images on the screen. Because he could not afford… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Wozniak could make one of the computers he had been sketching on” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“People know how to deal with a desktop intuitively. If you walk into an office, there are papers on the desk. The… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to buy it because I was really into computer graphics,” Jobs recalled. “I realized they were way ahead of others… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“the beginning of 2002 Apple faced a challenge. The seamless connection between your iPod, iTunes software, and computer made it easy to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” and “People who are serious about software should make their own… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“When it came time to announce the price of the new machine, Jobs did what he would often do in product demonstrations:… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“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
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
“A few years later, Jobs described to Wired the process that went into getting a new washing machine: It turns out that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“What was remarkable was that associating with a computer and electronics company was the best way for a rock band to seem… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“NeXT computer. But gradually he was learning his lesson. In building devices like the iPod,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“tangerine clam, and a professional desktop computer that suggested a Zen ice cube. Like bell-bottoms that turn up in the” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Now he was about to launch the Macintosh, a machine that violated many of the principles of the hacker’s code: It was… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — 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. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
