“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.” — 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
“If Apple is going to succeed, he told me, we’re going to win on innovation. And you can’t win on innovation unless… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams. — 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
“production.” They had created a device with a little circuit board that could control billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure. “You cannot… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will,"… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking something. You… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas… — 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
“One of his motivating passions was to build a lasting company. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that… — 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
